How do I find and report on broken symbolic links automatically?

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Answer by user549516 for How do I find and report on broken symbolic links...

November 21, 2019, 8:33 am

Fedora and Ubuntu provide the symlinks utility. The utility is a native elf executable, and not a wrapper shell script. The utility was preinstalled on Fedora. You may need to install the utility on...

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Answer by pooryorick for How do I find and report on broken symbolic links...

September 30, 2012, 12:09 pm

The problem with -L is that is has the side effect of expanding the search into sub-directories that are the targets of symlinks, which might not be expected or desired.With GNU findutils version of...

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Answer by rorycl for How do I find and report on broken symbolic links...

July 31, 2011, 3:53 am

This is a nice way of doing it with GNU find:find <root_dir_of_find> -follow -lname '*' | mail sysadmin -s 'Broken symlink report'The reason this works is because -lname with -follow (or -L)...

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Answer by user9517 for How do I find and report on broken symbolic links...

July 31, 2011, 1:50 am

Many ways to skin a cat This is quite portable (-L is posix requirement) find -L /path/you/care/about -type l 2>/dev/null | mail -s "Broken symlinks detected" womble@example.comYou didn't define...

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Answer by grs for How do I find and report on broken symbolic links...

July 30, 2011, 7:52 pm

I will give you a Linux answer and you could adjust it to your Unix, if needed:find . -type l ! -execdir test -e {} \; -print >> broken_symlinks.txt; mutt -s "Broken symlinks" womble@example.com...

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