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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting delete dead links Post 302326939 by Scott on Friday 19th of June 2009 07:50:17 AM
Old 06-19-2009
for FILE in *; do
ls -dL $FILE >/dev/null 2>&1 || echo RM $FILE
done

Or recursively...

for FILE in $(find .); do
ls -dL $FILE >/dev/null 2>&1 || echo RM $FILE
done

replace the echo RM with rm when you're happy!
 

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