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According to Jim Meyering on 2/19/2008 4:33 AM:
| But I am, having seen it myself. It happens when you have a stale symlink
| from an older copy of gnulib, but which now points nowhere because the
| file was renamed in gnulib.
Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[adding bug-automake]
According to Jim Meyering on 2/19/2008 4:33 AM:
| But I am, having seen it myself. It happens when you have a stale symlink
| from an older copy of gnulib, but which now points nowhere because the
| file was renamed in gnulib.
|
|
Hello,
* Eric Blake wrote on Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 02:28:35PM CET:
[adding bug-automake]
According to Jim Meyering on 2/19/2008 4:33 AM:
| But I am, having seen it myself. It happens when you have a stale symlink
| from an older copy of gnulib, but which now points nowhere because the
|
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According to Andreas Schwab on 2/19/2008 8:37 AM:
| Jim Meyering [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
|
| +# Remove dangling symlinks in gnulib-populated directories.
| +# This depends on GNU find, and a relatively recent version at that.
| +# Ignore any
Jim Meyering [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
+# Remove dangling symlinks in gnulib-populated directories.
+# This depends on GNU find, and a relatively recent version at that.
+# Ignore any failure for now, since it's only to avoid the relatively
+# unusual case in which a symlinked-to file in
On Feb 19, 2008 8:12 PM, Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The goal here is not to delete all symlinks, just symlinks that are
broken. Under the influence of -L, does -xtype l work like -lname '*' in
detecting just the broken symlinks?
For that you want find . -depth -type l -xtype l