[CentOS] Locating the broken links

Ioannis Vranos ivranos at freemail.gr
Mon Jan 28 00:22:53 UTC 2008


Garrick Staples wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 01:45:43AM +0200, Ioannis Vranos alleged:
>> Is there any command that I can use to find the broken links that point 
>> to non-existent files?
> 
> Not pretty, but should work fine:
> 
> find . -type l 2>/dev/null| while read line;do  test -e "$line" || echo "$line";done


I am trying "cleanlinks" and is cleaning lot of stuff, erasing links and 
empty directories, I hope it will not mess my installation, especially 
by doing the last.



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