如何确定linux符号链接是否指向目录或文件

Question

我有一个包含符号链接的目录-其中一些指向文件，而另一些指向目录-如何在shell脚本中识别那些指向目录的链接（不影响名称无关紧要）

Answer 1

use ls -L option to follow symlinks

This is the script that I used to differentiate between directories with contents from files/empty directories ( this will work only if directory has some contents -- in my case I am anyway interested in those directories that have some content so I am happy - but do suggest better options if any

cd dir
for i in `ls `
do
      if [ 1 -lt   `ls -l -L $i  | wc -l`  ]
      then
              echo "$i is a non empty directory" 
      else
              echo "$i is either an empty directory or a  file"
      fi
done