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# 1  
Old 10-27-2008
Remove all links
How can I remove all links (and just the links) from a file hierarchie (recursively)? With unlink I don't see any possibility to do that.

Thanks!
# 2  
Old 10-27-2008
use find e.g.:

Code:
#  find . -type l -exec ls -l {} \;

to get the ls...replace the ls -l with rm to remove....

# 3  
Old 10-27-2008
If you have zsh:

Code:
rm -- **/*(D@)

# 4  
Old 10-27-2008
I like that one:
Code:
find . -type l -exec rm {} \;

By the way, what is {} \; for?
# 5  
Old 10-28-2008
find loops through all directories and subdirectories starting at '.' and uses {} to inform a third-party program which file is currently being analyzed. So when rm is called the value of {} is already updated to be the current directory being removed.
 
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