Re: glob qualifier '-' doesn't work correctly on dangling symlinks

[Stephane Chazelas <stephane@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

2020-04-11 17:15:11 +0200, Vincent Lefevre:
[...]
> +zsh:10> ls -l file3
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 lefevre lefevre 5 2008-12-28 22:34:28 file3 -> file0
> 
> file*(-W) should have no matches.
[...]

It is not really documented but kind of implied that on broken
symlinks, after -, we're still looking at the symlink instead of
the target (there's no target for us to look at anyway).

The manual has:

>      ls -ld -- *(-@)
> 
> lists all broken symbolic links, and

That's consistent with GNU find's -xtype l

Or:

find -L . -perm -2

-- 
Stephane