Re: Problems building coreutils HEAD against gnulib HEAD

[James Youngman]

On Feb 19, 2008 8:12 PM, Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:
> The goal here is not to delete all symlinks, just symlinks that are
> broken.  Under the influence of -L, does -xtype l work like -lname '*' in
> detecting just the broken symlinks?

For that you want "find . -depth -type l -xtype l -delete".  That is,
a broken symbolic link looks like a link to both a physical and a
logical view.  To do the same thing with 4.1.7, use "find . -depth
-type l -xtype l -exec /bin/rm -f {} \;" though in this case the
-depth is not really needed.

James.