On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 11:15:39AM -0600, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
> I had a little script that would remove broken links. I used to do it
> like this:
> if ! stat -L $link > /dev/null; then rm $link; fi
> But recently (some time in February according to the CVS records) stat
> was changed so that stat -L would use lstat(2) if the link is broken.
> So I had to change it to
> if stat -L $link | awk '{print $3}' | grep l > /dev/null;
> then rm $link; fi
> but it is a lot less elegant.
> What is the proper accepted way to remove broken links?
A better answer to your original question was already given, but for
that command, isn't it sufficient to do
if ! [ -e $link ]; then rm $link; fi
All test(1)'s primaries that test things about files follow symlinks,
except for -h/-L.
--
Jilles Tjoelker
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