cleanlinks(1)							cleanlinks(1)



NAME
       cleanlinks - remove dangling symbolic links and empty directories

SYNOPSIS
       cleanlinks

DESCRIPTION
       The  cleanlinks program searches the directory tree descended from the
       current directory for symbolic links whose targets do not  exist,  and
       removes them.  It then removes all empty directories in that directory
       tree.

       cleanlinks is useful for cleaning up a shadow link tree	created	 with
       lndir(1) after files have been removed from the real directory.

DIAGNOSTICS
       A  message will be printed upon encountering each dangling symlink and
       empty directory.

SEE ALSO
       lndir(1).

AUTHOR
       The version of  the  cleanlinks	included  in  this  X.Org  Foundation
       release	was  originally	 written  by  David  Dawes wrote as a part of
       XFree86.

       Colin Watson  wrote  this  manual  page,	 originally  for  the  Debian
       Project.



X.Org				Version 6.8.2			cleanlinks(1)

UNIX/Linux commands referenced on this page:

1. links
2. link
3. as