.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
David Dawes wrote the
.I cleanlinks
program for XFree86.
.PP
Colin Watson wrote this manual page, originally for the Debian Project.