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882 B
Groff
30 lines
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Groff
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.TH cleanlinks 1 __vendorversion__
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.SH NAME
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cleanlinks \- remove dangling symbolic links and empty directories
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.B cleanlinks
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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The
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.I cleanlinks
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program searches the directory tree descended from the current directory for
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symbolic links whose targets do not exist, and removes them.
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It then removes all empty directories in that directory tree.
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.PP
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.I cleanlinks
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is useful for cleaning up a shadow link tree created with
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.BR lndir (1)
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after files have been removed from the real directory.
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.SH DIAGNOSTICS
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A message will be printed upon encountering each dangling symlink and empty
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directory.
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.SH SEE ALSO
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.BR lndir (1).
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.SH AUTHOR
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.PP
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The version of the
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.I cleanlinks
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included in this X.Org Foundation release was originally written
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by David Dawes wrote as a part of XFree86.
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.PP
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Colin Watson wrote this manual page, originally for the Debian Project.
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