How do I find all of the symlinks in a directory tree?

I’m trying to find all of the symlinks within a directory tree for my website. I know that I can use find to do this but I can’t figure out how to recursively check the directories.

I’ve tried this command:

find /var/www/ -type l

… and later I discovered that the contents in /var/www are symlinks, so I’ve changed the command to:

find -L /var/www/ -type l

it take a while to run, however I’m getting no matches.

How do I get this to check subdirectories?

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