First of all, install symlinks if it is not installed :
sudo yum install symlinks
and here is the description:
Description : The symlinks utility performs maintenance on symbolic links.
: Symlinks checks for symlink problems, including dangling symlinks
: which point to nonexistent files. Symlinks can also automatically
: convert absolute symlinks to relative symlinks.
:
: Install the symlinks package if you need a program for maintaining
: symlinks on your system.
and the help for the same:
symlinks: scan/change symbolic links – v1.3 – by Mark Lord
Usage: symlinks [-cdorstv] dirlist
Flags: -c == change absolute/messy links to relative
-d == delete dangling links
-o == warn about links across file systems
-r == recurse into subdirs
-s == shorten lengthy links (displayed in output only when -c not specified)
-t == show what would be done by -c
-v == verbose (show all symlinks)
So, if you want to delete all the invalid symlinks in the current directory the just execute:
symlinks -d . symlinks -d -r .
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