Garrick Staples wrote:

On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 01:45:43AM +0200, Ioannis Vranos alleged:

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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.

Garrick Staples wrote:

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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.

On your entire OS? Sounds like a pretty good way to break things.

Yes it damaged it. I had to reinstall from scratch... Any pretty way to find broken links on the entire filesystem would be welcome however.

Ioannis Vranos wrote:

Garrick Staples wrote:

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I am trying "cleanlinks" and is cleaning lot of stuff,

erasing links and

...

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empty directories, I hope it will not mess my

installation, especially

...

...

by doing the last.

On your entire OS? Sounds like a pretty good way to break things.

Yes it damaged it. I had to reinstall from scratch... Any pretty way to find broken links on the entire filesystem would be welcome however.

How about:

find . -L -type l -ls

then after you have evaluated them and they are all good to purge,

find . -L -type l -exec rm -f {} ;

-Ross

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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

Simpler way:

find . -L -type l -print

The -L tells find to follow symbolic links and use the file type of the destination of the link instead of the link itself, so it will only find files of type 'l' if it cannot find the file's destination, a nice little side-effect.

-Ross

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