Answer by user549516 for How do I find and report on broken symbolic links...
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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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...
View ArticleAnswer by rorycl for How do I find and report on broken symbolic links...
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)...
View ArticleAnswer by user9517 for How do I find and report on broken symbolic links...
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...
View ArticleAnswer by grs for How do I find and report on broken symbolic links...
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...
View ArticleHow do I find and report on broken symbolic links automatically?
As tidy sysadmins, we like to ensure that the little things are just as well covered as the big things (when time permits). One of these things is ensuring that our systems aren't full of broken...
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