Did 
for a in $(cat badlinks-clean); do ls -l $a; done

and all links show as broken?

Did Test
# mkdir testbroke
# cd testbroke/
# ln -s  /badlinks-clean test1
# ln -s /badlinks-cleanx test2
# ls -l
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 15 Sep 17 06:19 test1 -> 
/badlinks-clean
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 16 Sep 17 06:19 test2 -> 
/badlinks-cleanx

Both badlinks and badlinks-clean only contain
./test2

So only seems to list links that are broken.


On 16 Sep 2022 at 18:50, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:

Subject:                Re: Question on bad links?
From:                   Patrick O'Callaghan 
<pocallag...@gmail.com>
To:                     users@lists.fedoraproject.org
Date sent:              Fri, 16 Sep 2022 18:50:30 +0100
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> On Sat, 2022-09-17 at 02:58 +1000, Michael D. Setzer II via users
> wrote:
> > Not clear on differnce be -l and -L?
> 
> They have completely different meanings:
> 
> '-xtype l' finds files which are themselves symlinks. That's what your
> script is doing. Nothing I can see in the script detects that those
> links are bad, just that they are links, i.e. it will detect good links
> as well, so you probably don't want to just remove them automatically.
> 
> '-L' means "follow symbolic links while descending the tree". The
> default for find is not to do this, as it can often mean searching
> outside the tree.
> 
> You might want to install the symlinks package:
> 
> Name         : symlinks
> Version      : 1.7
> Release      : 6.fc36
> Architecture : x86_64
> Size         : 22 k
> Source       : symlinks-1.7-6.fc36.src.rpm
> Repository   : @System
> Summary      : A utility which maintains a system's symbolic links
> URL          : http://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/utils/file/
> License      : Copyright only
> Description  : The symlinks utility performs maintenance on symbolic links.  
> Symlinks
>              : checks for symlink problems, including dangling symlinks which 
> point
>              : to nonexistent files.  Symlinks can also automatically convert
>              : absolute symlinks to relative symlinks.
>              : 
>              : Install the symlinks package if you need a program for 
> maintaining
>              : symlinks on your system.
> 
> poc
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