find dangling symlinks
Hello, how do I find dangling symlinks? -- Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: find dangling symlinks
On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 22:16 +0200, Johannes Zellner wrote: Hello, how do I find dangling symlinks? Perhaps the package called symlinks would help. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: find dangling symlinks
On 6/20/06, Johannes Zellner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how do I find dangling symlinks? $ find -L path -type l should do it. -L tells find to follow symlinks, and -type l (that's a lowercase ell) matches symlinks. Since the only symlinks that will show as symlinks when they're automatically dereferenced are ones pointing to nothing, you should get a list of dangling links. I tested this out, and it worked as desired, but it's possible that there might be cases where it breaks. In particular, long chains of symlinks break, and I haven't checked to see if those match. -- Michael A. Marsh http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~mmarsh http://mamarsh.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: find dangling symlinks
try cleanlinksOn 6/20/06, Michael Marsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/20/06, Johannes Zellner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how do I find dangling symlinks?$ find -L path -type lshould do it.-L tells find to follow symlinks, and -type l (that's a lowercase ell) matches symlinks.Since the only symlinksthat will show as symlinks when they're automatically dereferenced areones pointing to nothing, you should get a list of dangling links. I tested this out, and it worked as desired, but it's possible thatthere might be cases where it breaks.In particular, long chains ofsymlinks break, and I haven't checked to see if those match.--Michael A. Marsh http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~mmarshhttp://mamarsh.blogspot.com--To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: find dangling symlinks
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Johannes Zellner wrote: Hello, how do I find dangling symlinks? Visually, or all of them in a tree? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is common sense really valid? For example, it is common sense to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins are mud people. However, that common sense is obviously wrong. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEmFtPS9HxQb37XmcRAo1dAJ9kbjzpy8hSuSUXeVWPwivxo97tLwCbB7P+ TVnqifbuWcDgWe1uVlAg96U= =l9IJ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
