Re: checking mirror state?

["James R. Van Zandt" <jrv@vanzandt.mv.com>]

>"James R. Van Zandt" <jrv@vanzandt.mv.com> writes:
>
>> You can use "find" to look for broken symlinks:
>> 
>>   find . -follow | grep "No such"

Actually, this works only by accident, because find prints its error
message to stderr rather than stdout.  A better pipeline would be:

  find . -follow 2>&1 | grep "No such"

This can be extended to saving the bad symlinks in a file:

  find . -follow 2>&1 | awk '/No such/{sub(/:/,"",$2); print $2}' >afile

                                  - Jim Van Zandt


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