How to find broken soft links in a directory?
Posted on In QAHow to find broken symbolic links in a directory which have many symbolic links?
Use this command to find broken soft links:
find -xtype l /path/to/dir/to/find/in/
You can also specify the action by -exec
. For example, delete the soft links that are broken in the current directory:
find -xtype l -exec rm -f {} ;
Not /path/to/dir/to/find/in/
specified here, which means .
(the current directory).