Re: how to tell a dangling symlink?
On Sat, Apr 24, 1999 at 12:09:27PM -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
> Hi,
>
> is:
>
> file -b dangling_symlink | grep -q '^broken symbolic link to'
>
> a good way to test for a dangling_symlink? I'm worried about
> locales...
[root@goodguy(4:57pm)-~/test]%ls -l
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Apr 24 16:57 broken -> no_file
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Apr 24 16:57 real_file
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Apr 24 16:57 working -> real_file
[root@goodguy(4:57pm)-~/test]%test -f broken || echo broken link
broken link
[root@goodguy(4:58pm)-~/test]%test -f working || echo broken link
[root@goodguy(4:58pm)-~/test]%
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