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Re: Testing for broken symlinks

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From: Alexey Tourbin <at@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: zsh-users@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Testing for broken symlinks
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 14:51:55 +0400
In-reply-to: <opspishpc86k1y1x@aspen>
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On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 05:30:51PM +1000, Eric Mangold wrote:
> Is there any way to test if a symlink is broken?

if [ -L "$f" -a ! -e "$f" ]; then
	print "$f: broken symlink"
fi

$ ln -sf /asdf/zxcv .
$ test -L zxcv; echo $?
0
$ test -e zxcv; echo $?
1
$

The point is that lstat(2) succeeds but stat(2) fails on broken
symlinks.

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