Handy One-Liners

Situation: You have a directory with a thousand files and a few dozen bad symlinks. How do you list just the bad symlinks?

find -L . -type l -name "*gz"

Of course, replace “*gz” with whatever file pattern you require, or use “*” to include everything.

To erase those bad links:

find -L . -type l -name "*gz" | xargs rm