question on broken links

Anthony J Placilla anthony_placilla at SUTH.COM
Tue Oct 5 16:54:29 UTC 2004


On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 10:18, Michael D. Setzer II wrote:
> I'm wondering if there is a way to fix broken links. When you to an ls 
> it shows them in Red background with white letters. I just installed a 
> program, and it didn't work. It said a file was missing, but I found the 
> file, but it was a link that was pointing to a non-existing file. I redid 
> the link to the file that was there with the newer number, and it them 
> worked find. I've also seen other broken links, but rather than trying 
> to find them one by one.
> 
> Thanks.
> 


man symlinks

something like:

symlinks -d -r /

will do what you want


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