On Sun, Aug 27, 2023 at 1:10 PM Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpe...@web.de> wrote:
>
> to...@tuxteam.de wrote on 24/08/2023 14:00:
> >
> > A couple of days ago I was searching for dangling symlinks.
> >
> >    find . -follow -lname "*"
> >
> How about
>     find -L . -type l

The symlink tool works great, too:

    symlink -r / | grep dangling

You can also delete them, once you verify they are dangling:

    symlink -r -d /

In fact, it is a recommended post-upgrade step for Fedora. See
<https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/upgrading-fedora-offline/#sect-clean-up-old-symlinks>.

(I'm not arguing with you. I'm just responding to the title change).

Jeff

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