On Sun, 2003-11-30 at 13:23, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
I recently installed tripwire on one of my Gentoo servers. Everytime I run it, I get ~250 warnings about files not existing, which are symlinks pointing to nothing. How can I find all invalid symlinks and delete them? Thanks.
( for f in $(find / ! -fstype proc -type l 2>/dev/null); do cd $(dirname "$f") 2>/dev/null && ! test -e "$(readlink "$f")" && echo "$f"; done )
This would print your broken symbolic links, just take any action you want about it later.
I've modified the script as follows and it only finds 4 invalid symlinks. Do the above and below do the exact same thing?
for f in $(find / ! -fstype proc -type l 2>/dev/null); do
cd `dirname "$f"` 2>/dev/null
if [ ! -e `readlink "$f"` ]; then
echo $f
fi
done-- Andrew Gaffney
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