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NAME

   symlinks - symbolic link maintenance utility

SYNOPSIS

   symlinks [ -cdorstv ] dirlist

DESCRIPTION

   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 ).

OPTIONS

   -c     convert  absolute links (within the same filesystem) to relative
          links.  This permits links to maintain their validity regardless
          of  the mount point used for the filesystem -- a desirable setup
          in most cases.  This option also causes any messy  links  to  be
          cleaned  up,  and,  if -s was also specified, then lengthy links
          are also shortened.  Links affected  by  -c  are  prefixed  with
          changed in the output.

   -d     causes dangling links to be removed.

   -o     fix  links  on  other  filesystems  encountered while recursing.
          Normally, other filesystems  encountered  are  not  modified  by
          symlinks.

   -r     recursively   operate   on   subdirectories   within   the  same
          filesystem.

   -s     causes lengthy links to be detected.

   -t     is used to test for what symlinks would do if -c were specified,
          but without really changing anything.

   -v     show  all  symbolic  links.   By default, relative links are not
          shown unless -v is specified.

BUGS

   symlinks does not recurse or change links across filesystems.

AUTHOR

   symlinks has been written by Mark Lord <mlord@pobox.com>, the  original
   developer  and maintainer of the IDE Performance Package for linux, the
   Linux IDE Driver subsystem, hdparm, and a current day libata hacker.

SEE ALSO

   symlink(2)



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