summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/cleanlinks.man
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorHyungKyu Song <hk76.song@samsung.com>2013-02-16 00:06:42 +0900
committerHyungKyu Song <hk76.song@samsung.com>2013-02-16 00:06:42 +0900
commit8111ce6e75c0a1354dd4a1ad7a6e7cbf60bc580c (patch)
treee87d45124361001d2c557e87b246482b77b6008a /cleanlinks.man
parenta1a2b2765e25bc20d6f249a467755455b9b3b6b3 (diff)
downloadimake-8111ce6e75c0a1354dd4a1ad7a6e7cbf60bc580c.tar.gz
imake-8111ce6e75c0a1354dd4a1ad7a6e7cbf60bc580c.tar.bz2
imake-8111ce6e75c0a1354dd4a1ad7a6e7cbf60bc580c.zip
Diffstat (limited to 'cleanlinks.man')
-rw-r--r--cleanlinks.man29
1 files changed, 29 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/cleanlinks.man b/cleanlinks.man
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d550ef5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cleanlinks.man
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+.TH cleanlinks 1 __vendorversion__
+.SH NAME
+cleanlinks \- remove dangling symbolic links and empty directories
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.B cleanlinks
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+The
+.I 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.
+.PP
+.I cleanlinks
+is useful for cleaning up a shadow link tree created with
+.BR lndir (1)
+after files have been removed from the real directory.
+.SH DIAGNOSTICS
+A message will be printed upon encountering each dangling symlink and empty
+directory.
+.SH SEE ALSO
+.BR lndir (1).
+.SH AUTHOR
+.PP
+The version of the
+.I cleanlinks
+included in this X.Org Foundation release was originally written
+by David Dawes wrote as a part of XFree86.
+.PP
+Colin Watson wrote this manual page, originally for the Debian Project.