Comments on: How-to find broken symlinks http://www.zulustips.com/2007/01/26/how-to-find-broken-symlinks.html Notes about *nix, hardware & software, performance & optimization Fri, 21 Nov 2008 04:09:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1 By: Michael http://www.zulustips.com/2007/01/26/how-to-find-broken-symlinks.html#comment-11 Michael Thu, 01 Feb 2007 09:04:12 +0000 http://www.zulustips.com/2007/01/26/how-to-find-broken-symlinks.html#comment-11 Probably you should use --exec or pipe to xargs to improve speed and not to break for in case of many many linknames. Probably you should use –exec or pipe to xargs to improve speed and not to break for in case of many many linknames.

]]> By: Darwin Award Winner http://www.zulustips.com/2007/01/26/how-to-find-broken-symlinks.html#comment-2168 Darwin Award Winner Sun, 14 Oct 2007 02:44:10 +0000 http://www.zulustips.com/2007/01/26/how-to-find-broken-symlinks.html#comment-2168 find ~/ -xdev -type l -print0 | xargs -0 -I '{}' sh -c "[ -e '{}' ] || echo '{}' is broken" find ~/ -xdev -type l -print0 | xargs -0 -I ‘{}’ sh -c “[ -e ‘{}’ ] || echo ‘{}’ is broken”

]]> By: Darwin Award Winner http://www.zulustips.com/2007/01/26/how-to-find-broken-symlinks.html#comment-2169 Darwin Award Winner Sun, 14 Oct 2007 05:26:23 +0000 http://www.zulustips.com/2007/01/26/how-to-find-broken-symlinks.html#comment-2169 Actually, that will fail on any file the contains a single quote in its name. So if you're not too attached to your single quotes, you can use this: # obliterate single-quotes from file names find $SOME_DIRECTORY -iname "*'*" -print0 | xargs -0 rename tr/\'//d # Function to find and remove bad links from files that don't have single quotes in their names find $SOME_DIRECTORY -type l -print0 | xargs -0 -I '{}' sh -c "[ -e '{}' ] || rm -f '{}'" Actually, that will fail on any file the contains a single quote in its name. So if you’re not too attached to your single quotes, you can use this:

# obliterate single-quotes from file names
find $SOME_DIRECTORY -iname “*’*” -print0 | xargs -0 rename tr/\’//d
# Function to find and remove bad links from files that don’t have single quotes in their names
find $SOME_DIRECTORY -type l -print0 | xargs -0 -I ‘{}’ sh -c “[ -e ‘{}’ ] || rm -f ‘{}’”

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