<p>I have a folder on my server to which I had a number of symbolic links pointing. I've since created a new folder and I want to change all those symbolic links to point to the new folder. I'd considered replacing the original folder with a symlink to the new folder, but it seems that if I continued with that practice it could get very messy very fast.</p>

<p>What I've been doing is manually changing the symlinks to point to the new folder, but I may have missed a couple. </p>

<p>Is there a way to check if there are any symlinks pointing to a particular folder?</p>

I'd use the find command.
```
```
find . -lname /particular/folder
```
```
That will recursively search the current directory for symlinks to
```
/particular/folder
```
. Note that it will only find absolute symlinks. A similar command can be used to search for all symlinks pointing at objects called "folder":
```
```
find . -lname '*folder'
```
```
From there you would need to weed out any false positives.