From: Sumair Mahmood (Sumair.Mahmood@qlogic.com)
Date: Mon Apr 29 2002 - 18:57:35 EDT
Respected Colleagues:
I have a number of broken symbolic links on the file systems of
computers which I manage.
I know I can find all of the symbolic links in a given filesystem using
the following :
(1) ls -l | grep '^l'
(2) find /dir -type l -exec ls -l {} \;
Is there a way, I wonder, to 'follow' a link to test to see if it is valid?
'ls -L' isn't reporting any errors for my broken links. I would like to
throw together a Bourne script to automate the process of finding
and deleting dangling links.
P.S. I wish I did, but I don't know Perl. If we could please limit this
discussion to Unix shell scripting, I would appreciate it!
Sumair Mahmood
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