On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 11:15:39AM -0600, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > I had a little script that would remove broken links. I used to do > it like this: > > if ! stat -L $link > /dev/null; then rm $link; fi > > But recently (some time in February according to the CVS records) > stat was changed so that stat -L would use lstat(2) if the link is > broken. > > So I had to change it to > > if stat -L $link | awk '{print $3}' | grep l > /dev/null; > then rm $link; fi > > but it is a lot less elegant. > > What is the proper accepted way to remove broken links?
If your complaint is the literal length of the line, you should be able to change your one-liner to: if stat -L -f %Sp $link | grep l > /dev/null; then rm $link; fi Though I agree this is less elegant. Unrelated (but worth noting), be aware your one-liner will break horribly with files that contains spaces; use "$link" instead. Possibly you could use the example from the find(1) man page: find -L /usr/ports/packages -type l -exec rm -- {} + Delete all broken symbolic links in /usr/ports/packages. (Note that the "+" on the end is not a typo, see the man page) Otherwise, possibly someone should add a flag to stat(1) that inhibits falling back on lstat(2). -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP 4BD6C0CB | _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"