Jeff Waugh wrote:
>
> Hey all,
>
> So, this will be a quick one. :-) Is there a relatively standard utility for
> finding broken links? Or is 'standard' going to be a combination of find and
> a shell script?
I don't know of a specialised utility, but the 'file' program can
identify broken symlinks:
$ ln -s ~/whatever .
$ file whatever
whatever: broken symbolic link to /home/matthewd/whatever
You could use this in combination with find and grep to do what you
want.
Matthew
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