From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9620 invoked from network); 20 Apr 2005 17:21:13 -0000 Received: from news.dotsrc.org (HELO a.mx.sunsite.dk) (130.225.247.88) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 20 Apr 2005 17:21:13 -0000 Received: (qmail 68860 invoked from network); 20 Apr 2005 17:21:05 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by a.mx.sunsite.dk with SMTP; 20 Apr 2005 17:21:05 -0000 Received: (qmail 10993 invoked by alias); 20 Apr 2005 17:20:57 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 8719 Received: (qmail 10974 invoked from network); 20 Apr 2005 17:20:55 -0000 Received: from news.dotsrc.org (HELO a.mx.sunsite.dk) (130.225.247.88) by sunsite.dk with SMTP; 20 Apr 2005 17:20:55 -0000 Received: (qmail 67890 invoked from network); 20 Apr 2005 17:20:55 -0000 Received: from sj-iport-3-in.cisco.com (HELO sj-iport-3.cisco.com) (171.71.176.72) by a.mx.sunsite.dk with SMTP; 20 Apr 2005 17:20:51 -0000 Received: from sj-core-2.cisco.com (171.71.177.254) by sj-iport-3.cisco.com with ESMTP; 20 Apr 2005 10:20:39 -0700 X-IronPort-AV: i="3.92,117,1112598000"; d="scan'208"; a="252318228:sNHT1051061028" Received: from cns-build4.cisco.com (cns-build4.cisco.com [128.107.183.19]) by sj-core-2.cisco.com (8.12.10/8.12.6) with ESMTP id j3KHKUKx005068; Wed, 20 Apr 2005 10:20:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: (paullew@localhost) by cns-build4.cisco.com (8.11.2/CISCO.WS.1.2) id j3KHKZQ24653; Wed, 20 Apr 2005 10:20:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Paul Lew MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16998.36707.213044.785468@cns-build4.cisco.com> Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 10:20:35 -0700 To: Peter Stephenson Cc: "zsh-users@sunsite.dk" Subject: Re: Testing for broken symlinks In-Reply-To: <200504200915.j3K9Fbsi018162@news01.csr.com> References: <200504200915.j3K9Fbsi018162@news01.csr.com> X-Mailer: VM 7.18 under Emacs 21.4.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2 on a.mx.sunsite.dk X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=6.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.0.2 X-Spam-Hits: -2.6 >>>>> "Peter" == Peter Stephenson writes: Eric>> Is there any way to test if a symlink is broken? Peter> This will work: Peter> broken=(mylinktest(N-@)) Peter> if (( ${#broken} )); then Peter> print mylinktest is a broken symbolic link Peter> else Peter> print mylinktest is not a symbolic link or is not broken Peter> fi Peter> A off-topic question, what ever happen to the old feature (some eariler version of zsh) that displays an '&' at end of the bad symlink when displaying filename completion lists? e.g., > touch foo1 foo2 > ln -s not-exist foo3 > ls foo foo1@ foo2@ foo3&