How to find out if a folder is the target of a symlink on Mac OSX

Question

I am trying to figure out if a folder is the target of a symlink and if so, where that source symlink is so that I can return the target folder to the original location. A Finder search for the same folder name does not give me any results. Usually I can find the source symlink with a search but sometimes it doesn't give me a result. Basically I have folders that I think are the targets of symlinks but I cannot remember where the actual source symlink is. I want to know this because this would've been the original location the folder was installed in before I moved it and made the symlink, and I want to return the destination folder to the original location. I was able to make the symlinks in Terminal but I am not knowledgeable about much else in terminal, so I would need step by step instructions if the solution is a Terminal function. thanks.

High Sierra 10.13

Answer 1

Just a simple ls -l in your shell ought to do the trick. See if you can figure out which of these lines represents a symlink and which represents an actual file/directory?