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...
[EMAIL PROTECTED](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 [EMAIL PROTECTED](4:57pm)-~/test]%test -f broken || echo broken link broken link [EMAIL PROTECTED](4:58pm)-~/test]%test -f working || echo broken link [EMAIL PROTECTED](4:58pm)-~/test]% -- ----- -- - -------- --------- ---- ------- ----- - - --- -------- Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian GNU/Linux OpenLDAP Dev - [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Choice of the GNU Generation ------ -- ----- - - ------- ------- -- ---- - -------- - --- ---- - --