What Does the Symlinks Command do?

[Stephen Morris <steve.morris.au@xxxxxxxxx>]

    Hi,
        Following DNF producing message about dangling symlinks again
    even though I removed dangling symlinks a couple of days ago, I ran
    "sudo symlinks -r / | grep -i dangling" which showed dangling lock
    symlinks for Firefox and Thunderbird and 5 dangling symlinks for a
    ".build-id" folder. So to get rid of them I ran "sudo symlinks -r -d
    /" which showed screens and screens of messages similar to the
    sample ones below, hence what was it actually doing?
    
    messy:
           /usr/share/icons/breeze-dark/preferences/32/krunner.svg ->
        ./plasma-search.svg
      
      messy:
         /usr/share/icons/breeze-dark/preferences/32/ksmserver.svg ->
      ./preferences-system-login.svg
      
      messy:
         /usr/share/icons/breeze-dark/preferences/32/plasmagik.svg ->
      ./preferences-desktop-plasma.svg
      
      messy:
         /usr/share/icons/breeze-dark/preferences/32/plasmashell.svg
      -> ./preferences-desktop-plasma.svg
      
      messy:
         /usr/share/icons/breeze-dark/preferences/32/system-lock-screen.svg
      -> ./preferences-desktop-user-password.svg
      
      absolute: /usr/share/kde4/apps/kssl/ca-bundle.crt ->
      /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt
      
      absolute: /usr/share/licenses/texlive-gsftopk/gpl.txt ->
      /usr/share/texlive/licenses/gpl.txt
      
      absolute: /usr/share/licenses/texlive-luatex/gpl2.txt ->
      /usr/share/texlive/licenses/gpl2.txt
    other_fs:
        /var/lib/snapd/snap/bare/current -> 5
      
      other_fs: /var/lib/snapd/snap/acrordrdc/current -> 62
      
      other_fs: /var/lib/snapd/snap/gtk-common-themes/current -> 1535
      
      other_fs: /var/lib/snapd/snap/gnome-3-28-1804/current -> 198
      
      other_fs: /var/lib/snapd/snap/wine-platform-runtime/current ->
      392
      
      o
    
        Just relative to the symlink command, the documentation for
    running that command as part of system upgrade post process says to
    run "symlinks -r /usr | grep dangling", why "/usr", why not "/"?
    
    regards,
    Steve

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