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How to identify broken symlinks?

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I have more than 1000 icons in a single directory and also there are hundreds of shortcuts (symbolic links?) inside that directory with different names, some of symbolic links are broken, i need to find which symbolic links are broken.

i tried using ls -l but it is difficult to use.

How do i do that? And is it possible to fix broken symbolic links. Thanks

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answered 3 Years ago nerta · Accepted Answer

This will list you all broken links:

find . -type l -exec sh -c "file -b {} | grep -q ^broken" ; -print