On Fri, 16 May 2008, Dylan William Hardison wrote:
> 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".
Thanks, that looks good. Can't get it right now because
gb.archive.ubuntu.com is down. Can't connect to port 80 manually, so yeah,
looks down to me. Can anyone else get in, or is it just me?
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