-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Andreas Schwab on 2/19/2008 8:37 AM: | Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | |> +# Remove dangling symlinks in gnulib-populated directories. |> +# This depends on GNU find, and a relatively recent version at that. |> +# Ignore any failure for now, since it's only to avoid the relatively |> +# unusual case in which a symlinked-to file in gnulib/ or gl/ is removed. |> +find -L m4 lib build-aux -depth -lname '*' -delete > /dev/null 2>&1 | | Why do you need -depth? Also, find 4.1 does not support -L nor -delete.
Because -delete implies -depth, and new enough findutils warns and does nothing rather than deleting a possibly different set of files than what you tested with (the use case that prompted the change was something like "find -name '*.txt'" as the dry run, then "find -delete -name '*.txt'" which proceeded to delete everything in `.'). | A more portable predicate is -xtype l. The goal here is not to delete all symlinks, just symlinks that are broken. Under the influence of -L, does -xtype l work like -lname '*' in detecting just the broken symlinks? - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHuzgX84KuGfSFAYARAlCmAKDUxWGgIJ8Vy9QxRLbSXf4JdCPvmwCgmgV6 Rb+jT8xFrKlHjTxs0YRM4h4= =Dp4r -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
