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Man Page: cleanlinks

Operating Environment: suse

Section: 1

cleanlinks(1)						      General Commands Manual						     cleanlinks(1)

NAME
cleanlinks - remove dangling symbolic links and empty directories
SYNOPSIS
cleanlinks
DESCRIPTION
The cleanlinks program searches the directory tree descended from the current directory for symbolic links whose targets do not exist, and removes them. It then removes all empty directories in that directory tree. cleanlinks is useful for cleaning up a shadow link tree created with lndir(1) after files have been removed from the real directory.
DIAGNOSTICS
A message will be printed upon encountering each dangling symlink and empty directory.
SEE ALSO
lndir(1).
AUTHOR
The version of the cleanlinks included in this X.Org Foundation release was originally written by David Dawes wrote as a part of XFree86. Colin Watson wrote this manual page, originally for the Debian Project. X Version 11 imake 1.0.2 cleanlinks(1)
Related Man Pages
symlinks(8) - centos
lndir(1) - debian
symlinks(1) - debian
update-boinc-applinks(1) - debian
symlink(2) - suse
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