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.