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cleanlinks
Section: User Commands (1) Updated: imake 1.0.6 Index
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NAME
cleanlinks - remove dangling symbolic links and empty directories
SYNOPSIS
cleanlinks
DESCRIPTION
The
cleanlinks
program searches the directory tree descended from the current directory for
symbolic links whose targets do not exist, and removes them.
It then removes all empty directories in that directory tree.
cleanlinks
is useful for cleaning up a shadow link tree created with
lndir(1)
after files have been removed from the real directory.
DIAGNOSTICS
A message will be printed upon encountering each dangling symlink and empty
directory.
SEE ALSO
lndir(1).
AUTHOR
The version of the
cleanlinks
included in this X.Org Foundation release was originally written
by David Dawes wrote as a part of XFree86.
Colin Watson wrote this manual page, originally for the Debian Project.
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