[NTLUG:Discuss] Broken links

[Greg Edwards]

Rusty Haddock wrote:
> Greg Edwards wrote:
>     >Anyone remember the command to chase down broken symbolic links?
> 
> The command below appears to work for me:   Some of the following
> links are directories while others are "plain" files.  Options of
> -xtype or -type may be of some additional use.
> 
> [289] -=> find ~ -type l -follow -print
> find: /home/rusty/Html/Tcl: No such file or directory
> find: /home/rusty/Html/Java: No such file or directory
> find: /home/rusty/Hardware/NewMicros/SMALLC/bar: No such file or directory
> find: /home/rusty/Hardware/NewMicros/baz: No such file or directory
> find: /home/rusty/Mail.old/arcie: No such file or directory
> 
> 	-Rusty-


Found it.  What I was looking for was "symlinks".  Pretty cool tool but 
I just couldn't remember the name.

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Greg Edwards
New Age Software, Inc.
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