Re: testing symbolic links

2002-03-04 Thread Cameron Kerr
On Sun, 3 Mar 2002, Angus D Madden wrote: >Does anyone know a of utility to check if a symbolic link is valid? You may want to check out a program called readlink. Its probably already on your system. IIRC, its part of the texmf distro. Cameron Kerr -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepages.paradis

finding a deb package Re: testing symbolic links

2002-03-04 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 04-Mar-2002 Harry Putnam wrote: > Angus D Madden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Does anyone know a of utility to check if a symbolic link is valid? >> >> I used a program called vpopbull (part of vpopmail package) to send a >> notice to a bunch of users. To my surprise, vpopbull ignored the

Re: testing symbolic links

2002-03-03 Thread Angus D Madden
Harry Putnam, Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 07:50:02PM -0800: > > I'm new here so not sure if there is a deb package but there is a > program called symlinks. It does exactly what you want to do. You > just aim it at a directory and it recurses thru and gives various > reports depending on the flags you

Re: testing symbolic links

2002-03-03 Thread Angus D Madden
Ren Weili, Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 11:19:55AM +0800: > for bash try: > [ -f foo ] > Thanks. duh. g -- Brought to you by Debian 3.0 Linux took 2.4.16 #1 SMP Sat Jan 5 12:52:24 EST 2002 i686 unknown pgpPJxNCDqgAR.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: testing symbolic links

2002-03-03 Thread Harry Putnam
Angus D Madden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does anyone know a of utility to check if a symbolic link is valid? > > I used a program called vpopbull (part of vpopmail package) to send a > notice to a bunch of users. To my surprise, vpopbull ignored the > complete path I gave it and created links