symlink

[Stephen R Laniel]

On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 08:39:16PM +0300, ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY wrote:
> It means that file A is a symlink to file B which is (more or less) a
> symlink pointing back to A!

I could be mistaken, but I believe that a dangling symlink
is a symlink pointing to a file that doesn't exist. The way
to check this would be to do

ls -la [filename]

where [filename] is the dangling symlink. Then chase down
the links and see what's pointing to what.

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