find: Print type of file, inode #, filename and link destination

1 · Benjamin Cane · Sept. 13, 2011, 8:01 p.m.
I have been playing with find a lot lately due to some tasks I have had and someone asked me of a way to duplicate the directory, files, symlinks, and hardlinks of a very large directory on a system that is not connected in any fashion (this eliminates tar or rsync). The files dont necessarily need to have data and they probably shouldn't in this case. Here is the solution I gave him....