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Old 10-04-2010
delete unavailable soft link
Hi guys,

Good day to all. I have a question that how to remove all unavialable soft link in one folder?
Because I moved orginal (source) folder and the soft links which I created have been not available at all. And then how do I remove the soft links in one time?

Any idea?

Thanks & Regards
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Old 10-05-2010
removed, after saw Aia's code.
Last edited by rdcwayx; 10-05-2010 at 02:01 AM..
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Old 10-05-2010
Test the following

bash code:
  1. find . -type l -exec rm -r {} \;
Last edited by Aia; 10-05-2010 at 03:33 AM.. Reason: Added highlighted tags
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Old 10-05-2010
This should find and delete just the broken links:

Code:
find . -follow -lname '*' -delete

Follow will cause find to follow links so lname never matches a link unless it's broken. Test with -print instead of -delete to make sure it's going to do what you want.
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