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Date: Sat, 27 Jul 1996 11:18:03 -0400 (EDT)
From: Marc Ramirez <mrami@mrami.com>
To: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu>
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Subject: Re: Deleting a Link Farm
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On Sat, 27 Jul 1996, Annelise Anderson wrote:

> I've had /usr/ports linked to /cdrom/ports with lndir; in addition to
> the symbolic links, quite a few regular files also existed in various
> directories.
> 
> I couldn't find any direct way to remove the links lndir created, so
> I used find to find symbolic links and remove them, then found the
> regular files and moved them, and finally used rm -R to get rid of
> all the empty directories.  
> 
> Is there an easier way, or a way to remove only empty directories and
> leave those with regular files?

find /usr/ports -type l -exec rm {} \;

will delete all symbolic links.

Marc.

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