question on broken links

[Paul Howarth]

Anthony J Placilla wrote:
> 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

Not quite; it will delete the broken symlinks rather than fixing them to point 
to the right file. The big question is of course, what should the right file be?

Paul.