Re: [SLUG] links

From: Dylan William Hardison (dylan@hardison.net)
Date: Fri May 16 2008 - 21:06:32 EDT


Spake Eben King on Friday, May 16, 2008 at 07:31PM -0400:
> No, not the browser.
>
> I can find all links by "find -type l ...". Fair enough, I can look for
> the the red ones in "ls". I might miss one, though, so how do I find
> only broken links?
>
> While we're at it, is there any means to maintain (or fix) cross-device
> links so they'll work even if I move or rename the target?

You want the symlinks program.
In debian and ubuntu based systems, this will be in a package called "symlinks".

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