Also sprach Anthony Campbell (Wed 06 Aug 02003 at 03:56:28PM +0100): > Never do this! > > I just ran cleanlinks on my root directory; really stupid thing to do! > > Lots of things were deleted which should not have been and I don't know > how long it will take to get things back working; only just restored ppp. Possibly a > new > installation will be required?
This is plain scary !?!?
# sudo cat /usr/X11R6/bin/cleanlinks
#!/bin/sh
#
# Copyright © 2000 by The XFree86 Project, Inc
#
# Remove dangling symlinks and empty directories from a shadow link tree
# (created with lndir).
#
# Author: David Dawes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
#
# $XFree86: xc/config/util/cleanlinks.sh,v 1.1 2001/03/21 20:25:00 dawes Exp $
find . -type l -print |
(
read i
while [ X"$i" != X ]; do
if [ ! -f "$i" ]; then
echo $i is a dangling symlink, removing
rm -f "$i"
fi
read i
done
)
echo Removing empty directories ...
find . -type d -depth -print | xargs rmdir > /dev/null 2>&1
exit 0
Actually, that script removes every symbolic link that does not test
successfully as a regular file. Yes, that test will follow the symbolic
link; but, it will only check whether or not the destination is a
regular file. It does *NOT* test for dangling symlink at all! On my
system, I have *many* symlinks to directories, all of which contain
something, and this script flags *ALL* of them for removal . . .
What could be the purpose of this script?
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