UNIX Tips: How to find broken symbolic

In computing, a symbolic link (also symlink or soft link) is a special type of file that contains a reference to another file or directory in the form of an absolute or relative path and that affects pathname resolution.
1. To display a list of the broken links, execute:

1	find -L ${dir} -type l

2. To remove the broken links, execute:

1	find -L ${dir} -type l -print0 | xargs -0 rm