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  1. symlinks
  2. ========
  3. **scan/change symbolic links**
  4. Symlinks is a simple tool that helps find and remedy problematic symbolic links on a system.
  5. Description
  6. -----------
  7. 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.
  8. Installation
  9. ------------
  10. ### Source:
  11. $ ./configure
  12. $ make
  13. $ make install
  14. Usage
  15. -----
  16. ### Scan:
  17. $ symlinks -r [path]
  18. ### Show all symlinks:
  19. $ symlinks -rv [path]
  20. ### Convert absolute symlink to relative:
  21. $ symlinks -rc [path]
  22. ### More options:
  23. $ symlinks -h
  24. Changes
  25. -------
  26. #### v1.4.2
  27. - Reformatted for readability roughly based on Google style guide.
  28. - Fixed loss of precision due to implicit type conversion.
  29. - Minor documentation updates.
  30. #### v1.4-1
  31. - Added Mac OS X compatibility.
  32. #### v1.4
  33. - Incorporate patches from Fedora.
  34. #### v1.3
  35. - More messy-link fixes, new `-o` flag for other_fs.
  36. #### v1.2
  37. - Added `-s` flag to shorten links with redundant path elements.
  38. - Also includes code to remove excess slashes from paths.
  39. Credit
  40. ------
  41. Symlinks was created by **Mark Lord** <mlord@pobox.com>.
  42. Maintained by **J. Brandt Buckley** <brandt@runlevel1.com>.