Did
for a in $(cat badlinks-clean); do ls -l $a; done
and all links show as broken?
Did Test
# mkdir testbroke
# cd testbroke/
# ln -s /badlinks-clean test1
# ln -s /badlinks-cleanx test2
# ls -l
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 15 Sep 17 06:19 test1 ->
/badlinks-clean
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 16 Sep 17 06:19 test2 ->
/badlinks-cleanx
Both badlinks and badlinks-clean only contain
./test2
So only seems to list links that are broken.
On 16 Sep 2022 at 18:50, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
Subject: Re: Question on bad links?
From: Patrick O'Callaghan
<pocallaghan@gmail.com>
To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org
Date sent: Fri, 16 Sep 2022 18:50:30 +0100
Send reply to: Community support for Fedora
users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org>
> On Sat, 2022-09-17 at 02:58 +1000, Michael D. Setzer II via users
> wrote:
> > Not clear on differnce be -l and -L?
>
> They have completely different meanings:
>
> '-xtype l' finds files which are themselves symlinks. That's what your
> script is doing. Nothing I can see in the script detects that those
> links are bad, just that they are links, i.e. it will detect good links
> as well, so you probably don't want to just remove them automatically.
>
> '-L' means "follow symbolic links while descending the tree". The
> default for find is not to do this, as it can often mean searching
> outside the tree.
>
> You might want to install the symlinks package:
>
> Name : symlinks
> Version : 1.7
> Release : 6.fc36
> Architecture : x86_64
> Size : 22 k
> Source : symlinks-1.7-6.fc36.src.rpm
> Repository : @System
> Summary : A utility which maintains a system's symbolic links
> URL : http://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/utils/file/
> License : Copyright only
> Description : The symlinks utility performs maintenance on symbolic links. Symlinks
> : checks for symlink problems, including dangling symlinks which point
> : to nonexistent files. Symlinks can also automatically convert
> : absolute symlinks to relative symlinks.
> :
> : Install the symlinks package if you need a program for maintaining
> : symlinks on your system.
>
> poc
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