[ -e "foo" -o -L "foo" -a ! -e "foo" ]
it has no sense doing twice the "-e" test
$ ln -s nonexistent foo
$ [ -e "foo" -o -L "foo" -a ! -e "foo" ] && echo ok || echo ko
ok
$ [ -e "foo" -o -L "foo" ] && echo ok || echo ko
ok
as you can see, the first "-e" check imply the second one
(aka, if the first "-e" is false, necessarily the second one will be
true...)
maybe you have "too rougly" join the trick to check a broken link
-L "foo" -a ! -e "foo"
but in this particular case you don't have to check "only" broken links,
but every file, broken links included...
so every file but broken links is "-e"
links and broken links is "-L"
join together -e and -L
every file, included links and broken links
ok?
bye
