[CentOS] Locating the broken links

Ross S. W. Walker rwalker at medallion.com
Thu Jan 31 15:24:45 UTC 2008


Ioannis Vranos wrote:
> 
> Garrick Staples wrote:
> >
> >> 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.

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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