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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.