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Parsing ls is a Bad Idea®, prefer a simple find in that case:

find . -type l -ls

To only process the current directory:

find . -maxdepth 1 -type l -ls

^{Credits: How do I make the shell to recognize the file names returned by a `ls -A` command, and these names contain spaces?}

the ls -la command show all files and folders and also symbolic linked directory, if this command doesn't show any symbolic directory it means you don't have a symbolic link to WordPress.

see the result of running ls -la:

kasiya@kasiya-pc:~$ cd /sys/devices/platform/sony-laptop

kasiya@kasiya-pc:/sys/devices/platform/sony-laptop$ ls -la

total 0

drwxr-xr-x  3 root root    0 Sep  9 19:57 .

drwxr-xr-x 14 root root    0 Sep 10  2014 ..

-r--r--r--  1 root root 4096 Sep  9 22:32 battery_care_health

-rw-r--r--  1 root root 4096 Sep  9 22:32 battery_care_limiter

lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    0 Sep  9 19:57 driver -> ../../../bus/platform/drivers/sony-laptop

-r--r--r--  1 root root 4096 Sep  9 22:32 modalias

drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    0 Sep  9 22:32 power

lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    0 Sep  9 22:32 subsystem -> ../../../bus/platform

-rw-r--r--  1 root root 4096 Sep  9 22:32 touchpad

-rw-r--r--  1 root root 4096 Sep  9 19:57 uevent

You will see all symbolic directory has l permission at the begging of permissions flags. and if you take a grep with ^l you can list only symbolic files or directory:

kasiya@kasiya-pc:/sys/devices/platform/sony-laptop$ ls -la |grep ^l

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    0 Sep  9 19:57 driver -> ../../../bus/platform/drivers/sony-laptop

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    0 Sep  9 22:32 subsystem -> ../../../bus/platform

kasiya@kasiya-pc:/sys/devices/platform/sony-laptop$ 

driver and subsystem directory are symbolic link to other directory in here.

grep is your friend:

ls -lhaF | grep ^l   # list links

ls -lhaF | grep ^d   # list directories

ls -lhaF | grep ^-   # list files

This will list lines starting with "l" which represent Links in the perms column in place of l use d for directories and - for files

POSIXly:

find ! -name . -prune -type l

Type ls -lai,it will list all the files and subdirectories with corresponding inode numbers.You know files with same inode number are the links(hard or soft) and this solution also works for the symbolic links.

To view the symbolic links in a directory:

1. Open a terminal and move to that directory.



2. 
   

   Type the command:

   
   
   

   ls -la
   
   

   
   
   

   This shall long list all the files in the directory even if they are hidden.

   
   



3. The files that start with l are your symbolic link files.

Can be done with python as well:

$ python -c "import os,sys; print 'n'.join([os.path.join(sys.argv[1],i) for i in os.listdir(sys.argv[1]) if os.path.islink(os.path.join(sys.argv[1],i))])" /path/to/dir

Sample run:

$ python -c "import os,sys; print 'n'.join([os.path.join(sys.argv[1],i) for i in os.listdir(sys.argv[1]) if os.path.islink(os.path.join(sys.argv[1],i))])" /etc

/etc/vtrgb

/etc/printcap

/etc/resolv.conf

/etc/os-release

/etc/mtab

/etc/localtime

This can be extended to be recursive via os.walk function, but it's sufficient to use simple list generation for listing links in a single directory as I showed above.

This returns all symbolically linked items (both dirs & fns) in a directory:

find . -maxdepth 1 -type l -print | cut -c3- | grep -v "#"

However, in order to distinguish between actual symbolically linked item types:

ls -lhaF | grep ^l | grep -v "#" | cut -c42- | grep -v "/" | cut -d' ' -f1

Returns symbolically linked filename items only. And,

ls -lhaF | grep ^l | grep -v "#" | cut -c42- | grep "/" | cut -d' ' -f1

Returns symbolically linked dirname items only.