On Sun, 2003-11-30 at 13:23, Andrew Gaffney wrote: > I recently installed tripwire on one of my Gentoo servers. Everytime I run it, I get > ~250 > warnings about files not existing, which are symlinks pointing to nothing. How can I > find > all invalid symlinks and delete them? Thanks.
( for f in $(find / ! -fstype proc -type l 2>/dev/null); do cd $(dirname "$f") 2>/dev/null && ! test -e "$(readlink "$f")" && echo "$f"; done ) This would print your broken symbolic links, just take any action you want about it later. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list