How to find symbolic links recursively under a folder in Linux

Linux and Unix-Like Ubuntu
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Hi ,

I have folder which has almost 35000 objects, I need to find out or list the objects which are symbolic links. I tried f

. I am not getting right

Can you pls help

Regards

amv

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�-type� reports the types of the files that symbolic links point to. This means that in combination with �-L�, �-type l� will be true only for broken symbolic links. To check for symbolic links when �-L� has been specified, use �-xtype l�.

Symbolic Links - Finding Files

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thanks a lot.This post helped me.

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Hi,
I had visited the page you mentioned, but i could not get the list displayed. I got the following

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On Linux, this works ...

find -type l

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find /folder -type l -exec ls -lad {} \;