Garrick Staples wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 01:45:43AM +0200, Ioannis Vranos alleged:
> > Is there any command that I can use to find the broken
> links that point
> > to non-existent files?
>
> Not pretty, but should work fine:
>
> find . -type l 2>/dev/null| while read line;do test -e
> "$line" || echo "$line";done
Simpler way:
find . -L -type l -print
The -L tells find to follow symbolic links and use the file type
of the destination of the link instead of the link itself, so
it will only find files of type 'l' if it cannot find the file's
destination, a nice little side-effect.
-Ross
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