02-21-2008
Shell Commands for Symbolic Links
Thank you very much for the indepth solution.
I'm still very new to the Unix world, and where I am, we mainly deal with AIX, so I will definately check out the forums here.
So I've come to the conclusion to use the following 2 commands:
(find all non-absolute symbolic links)
find / -type l ! -fstype nfs 2> /dev/null | (while read FN ; do test -e "$FN" | file -h "$FN" | grep 'symbolic link to [^/]' ; done) | wc -l
(final all broken symbolic links)
find / -type l ! -fstype nfs 2> /dev/null | (while read FN ; do test -e "$FN" || ls -l "$FN" 2> /dev/null; done) | wc -l
Thanks very much for the help!
ben
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