[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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