[CentOS] Locating the broken links

Mon Jan 28 02:29:57 UTC 2008
Garrick Staples <garrick at usc.edu>

On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 02:22:53AM +0200, Ioannis Vranos alleged:
> 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.

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


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