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Please let me know as how to do listing of all the dead symbolic links for all the files and subfolders under a folder?
Background Information:
I tarred a folder(that has files and subfolders in it, along with files which are symbolic links to other files and are reffering by absolute path). I take the tar file and extract it onto a different machine under a different folder. Now the symbolic link files which are referring to other files by absolute path becomes invalid.
Question:
Now how do I run through all the files and folders under a folder and list ONLY those symbolic links that are "DEAD" or "INVALID", along with their name and the location of the file.
I have a script I use that will traverse directories looking for dead links, but I don't have it memorized. If you just want to look for dead links in a particular directory (/usr/bin for example) you can
Code:
for link in /usr/bin/*; do [ -h "$link" -a ! -e "$link" ] && echo "Link $link is broken."; done
Last edited by weibullguy; 09-20-2007 at 03:07 PM.
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