Symlinks

symlinks ist ein Werkzeug zur Verwaltung von symbolischen Verknüpfungen

$ symlinks [ -cdorstv ] dirlist

symlinks is a useful utility for maintainers of FTP sites, CDROMs, and Linux software distributions. It scans directories for symbolic links and lists them on stdout, often revealing flaws in the filesystem tree.

• Each link is output with a classification of relative, absolute, dangling, messy, lengthy, or other_fs. * relative links are those expressed as paths relative to the directory in which the links reside, usually independent of the mount point of the filesystem.
• absolute links are those given as an absolute path from the root directory as indicated by a leading slash (/).
• dangling links are those for which the target of the link does not currently exist. This commonly occurs for absolute links when a filesystem is mounted at other than its customary mount point (such as when the normal root filesystem is mounted at /mnt after booting from alternative media).
• messy links are links which contain unnecessary slashes or dots in the path. These are cleaned up as well when -c is specified.
• lengthy links are links which use "../" more than necessary in the path (eg. /bin/vi -> ../bin/vim) These are only detected when -s is specified, and are only cleaned up when -c is also specified.
• other_fs are those links whose target currently resides on a different filesystem from where symlinks was run (most useful with -r ).

• symlinks does not recurse or change links across filesystems.