symlinks

scan/change symbolic links

Symlinks is a simple tool that helps find and remedy problematic symbolic links on a system.

Description

Symlinks scans directories for symbolic links, identifying dangling, relative, absolute, messy, and other_fs links. It can also change absolute links to relative within a given filesystem.

Installation

Source:

$ ./configure
$ make
$ make install

Usage

Scan:

$ symlinks -r [path]

Show all symlinks:

$ symlinks -rv [path]

Convert absolute symlink to relative:

$ symlinks -rc [path]

More options:

$ symlinks -h

Changes

v1.4.3

• Fixed LFS support bug that caused erratic behavior on 32-bit systems.

v1.4.2

• Reformatted for readability roughly based on Google style guide.
• Fixed loss of precision due to implicit type conversion.
• Minor documentation updates.

v1.4-1

• Added Mac OS X compatibility.

v1.4

• Incorporate patches from Fedora.

v1.3

• More messy-link fixes, new -o flag for other_fs.

v1.2

• Added -s flag to shorten links with redundant path elements.
• Also includes code to remove excess slashes from paths.

Credit

Symlinks was created by Mark Lord mlord@pobox.com.
Maintained by J. Brandt Buckley brandt@runlevel1.com.