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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Shell Command for Symbolic Link Targets Post 302169430 by bdizenhouse on Thursday 21st of February 2008 09:10:31 AM
Old 02-21-2008
I have now been asked to also provide a count of the results.

So I think I found the following solutions:
#2
find / -type l | (while read FN ; do test -e "$FN" || ls -l "$FN"; done)
and
find / -type l | (while read FN ; do test -e "$FN" || ls -l "$FN"; done) | grep -c '[a-z]'

#1
find / -type l | (while read FN ; do test -e "$FN" | file -h "$FN" | grep 'symbolic link to [^/]' ; done)
and
find / -type l | (while read FN ; do test -e "$FN" | file -h "$FN" | grep 'symbolic link to [^/]' ; done) | grep -c 'symbolic link to [^/]'

Are these correct? I want to make sure I'm only looking at local filesystems only. Also how can I suppress the messages like "ls: 0653-341 The file xxx does not exist." or "find: 0652-019 The status on xxx is not valid."


Thanks for any and all help.

Ben
 

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