Re: [gentoo-user] Finding orphaned libs

[Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling)]

Willie Wong <wwong@math.princeton.edu> wrote:

> > qfile --orphans $(find -H /usr/lib /lib -type f)
> > 
> > which avoids checking all the symlinks.

In case that you find implementation works correctly, this will
not change anything unless either /usr/lib or /lib are symlinks.

If you however use find -L, -type f will find even all symlinks in case they
are pointing to a file.

In negative logic: "find -L /usr/lib -type l" will find all symlinks
in /usr/lib that do not point anywhere.

 
> BTW, though, $(find -H ...) will have too big a list. Perhaps better
> to do 
>
> find -H /usr/lib /lib -type f | xargs qfile -o

This is why find has ".... -exec ... {} +" since 19 years.....

xargs will have problems in case that a file name contains spaces, tabs or 
newlines.
Jörg

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