https://github.com/brandt/symlinks

symbolic link maintenance utility
https://github.com/brandt/symlinks

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symbolic link maintenance utility

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/brandt/symlinks
• Owner: brandt
• License: mit
• Created: 2012-07-05T02:57:03.000Z (almost 12 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2021-09-24T17:07:58.000Z (over 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-02-22T01:21:11.172Z (4 months ago)
• Language: C
• Size: 156 KB
• Stars: 116
• Watchers: 12
• Forks: 24
• Open Issues: 12
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: Readme.md
  • License: LICENSE

Lists

• awesome-stars - brandt/symlinks - symbolic link maintenance utility (C)
• cli-apps - symlinks - Symlinks is a simple tool that helps find and remedy problematic symbolic links on a system. (<a name="file-handling"></a>File and file system handling)
• awesome-stars - brandt/symlinks - symbolic link maintenance utility (C)
• awesome-cli-apps - symlinks - Symlinks is a simple tool that helps find and remedy problematic symbolic links on a system. (<a name="file-handling"></a>File and file system handling)

README

        
symlinks

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**scan/change symbolic links**

Symlinks is a simple tool that helps find and remedy problematic symbolic links on a system.

Description

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Symlinks scans directories for symbolic links, identifying dangling, relative, absolute, messy, and other_fs links.  It can also change absolute links to relative within a given filesystem.

Installation

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### Source:

    $ ./configure

    $ make

    $ make install

Usage

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### Scan:

    $ symlinks -r [path]

### Show all symlinks:

    $ symlinks -rv [path]

### Convert absolute symlink to relative:

    $ symlinks -rc [path]

### More options:

    $ symlinks -h

Changes

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#### v1.4.3

- Fixed LFS support bug that caused erratic behavior on 32-bit systems.

#### v1.4.2

- Reformatted for readability roughly based on Google style guide.

- Fixed loss of precision due to implicit type conversion.

- Minor documentation updates.

#### v1.4-1

- Added Mac OS X compatibility.

#### v1.4 

- Incorporate patches from Fedora.

#### v1.3

- More messy-link fixes, new `-o` flag for other_fs.

#### v1.2 

- Added `-s` flag to shorten links with redundant path elements.

- Also includes code to remove excess slashes from paths.

Credit

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Symlinks was created by **Mark Lord** .  

Maintained by **J. Brandt Buckley** .