CLEANLINKS(1)

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version 1.0.11 · 3 versions
, in alpine 3.24, arch rolling, nixos 26.05, nixpkgs unstable

🌸 NAME 🌸

  • cleanlinks — remove dangling symbolic links and empty directories. That’s the whole gig, bestie. ✨

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

cleanlinks

Just run it like that. 🫶

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Okay so cleanlinks starts in your current directory and searches the whole directory tree descended from it. It’s looking for symbolic links whose targets do not exist — dangling links, basically — and it removes them. Then it removes all empty directories in that directory tree. 🌈

It’s lowkey iconic for cleaning up a shadow link tree created with lndir(1) after files have been removed from the real directory. Like, that’s the vibe check it’s here for. 🧚

💅 DIAGNOSTICS 💅

A message will be printed upon encountering each dangling symlink and empty directory. So yeah, it’s gonna announce every single one. 😭

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

  • lndir(1) — the link-tree tool mentioned above. iykyk. 💜

🌟 AUTHOR 🌟

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

This manual page was written by Colin Watson, originally for the Debian Project. 🦋

This page came from imake 1.0.11, dated 2004-04-23. xoxo, bestie 💖

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