Find broken symlinks with "find"
Posted on
November
8, 2020
The find
command knows how to show broken symlinks:
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find . -xtype l
This was useful to me when combined with Git Annex. Its
wanted
option allows you to have a “sparse” checkout of
the content, and save space by not having to copy every annexed file locally:
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git annex wanted . 'exclude=Music/* and exclude=Videos/*'
You can find
any broken symlinks outside those directories by querying with
Git Annex itself, but find . -xtype l
works on other places too, where broken
symlinks might be a problem.