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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. |