Symlink check - Linux Bash Script
Check this page. It has a test for broken links. It uses the -h operator to identify a symlink and the -e operator to check existance.
From that page:
linkchk () { for element in $1/*; do [ -h "$element" -a ! -e "$element" ] && echo \"$element\" [ -d "$element" ] && linkchk $element # Of course, '-h' tests for symbolic link, '-d' for directory. done}# Send each arg that was passed to the script to the linkchk() function#+ if it is a valid directoy. If not, then print the error message#+ and usage info.##################for directory in $directorys; do if [ -d $directory ] then linkchk $directory else echo "$directory is not a directory" echo "Usage: $0 dir1 dir2 ..." fidoneexit $?