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Old 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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NAME
CPANPLUS::Shell::Default::Plugins::Source - read in CPANPLUS commands SYNOPSIS
CPAN Terminal> /source /tmp/list_of_commands /tmp/more_commands DESCRIPTION
This is a "CPANPLUS::Shell::Default" plugin that works just like your unix shells source(1) command; it reads in a file that has commands in it to execute, and then executes them. A sample file might look like this: # first, update all the source files x --update_source # find all of my modules that are on the CPAN # test them, and store the error log a ^KANE$' t * p /home/kane/cpan-autotest/log # and inform us we're good to go ! print "Autotest complete, log stored; please enter your commands!" Note how empty lines, and lines starting with a '#' are being skipped in the execution. BUG REPORTS
Please report bugs or other issues to <bug-cpanplus@rt.cpan.org<gt>. AUTHOR
This module by Jos Boumans <kane@cpan.org>. COPYRIGHT
The CPAN++ interface (of which this module is a part of) is copyright (c) 2001 - 2007, Jos Boumans <kane@cpan.org>. All rights reserved. This library is free software; you may redistribute and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. SEE ALSO
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