cleanlinks(1) UNIX Programmer's Manual cleanlinks(1)
cleanlinks - remove dangling symbolic links and empty direc-
tories
cleanlinks
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.
A message will be printed upon encountering each dangling
symlink and empty directory.
lndir(1).
David Dawes wrote the cleanlinks program for XFree86.
Colin Watson wrote this manual page, originally for the
Debian Project.
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