On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Jerry Kreps wrote: jk> On Wednesday 24 January 2001 12:06, Jeremy Buchmann wrote: jk> > Whoops, that's a thinko, this really does work: jk> > jk> > find / -type l ! -path '/proc*' -exec file {} \; | grep "broken jk> > symbolic" jk> > jk> > > I hope you don't mind a patch :) jk> jk> Only if they work! ;-) jk> This one doesn't work for me. I get an 'unexpected token near !" message. jk> jlk jk> I think someone goofed, that '!' should not be there after the '-type l'. Remove that and it whould work fine. Although somewhere along the line, the above lost the '-prune -o' function, which when removed kinda defeats the purpose of the whole '-path' function. jk> -- S.Toms - tomas@primenet.com - www.primenet.com/~tomas SuSE Linux v7.0+ - Kernel 2.2.18 There's a fine line between courage and foolishness. Too bad it's not a fence.