crashes on borken symlinks

[ckelty]

This tools is fantastic-- but it seems crash on broken symlinks. Telling it to ignore 0 byte files doesn't solve it, since the symlinks are not 0 bytes. Maybe I'm missing something...

www/boi-cms.old/taps_ctrl.sh
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/boto-rsync", line 1150, in
main()
File "/usr/local/bin/boto-rsync", line 544, in main
file_size = os.path.getsize(fullpath)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/genericpath.py", line 49, in getsize
return os.stat(filename).st_size
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/www/boi-cms.old/current'
Scanning for files to transfer...
shells
Muttrc
pam.conf
nanorc
legal
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/boto-rsync", line 1150, in
main()
File "/usr/local/bin/boto-rsync", line 544, in main
file_size = os.path.getsize(fullpath)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/genericpath.py", line 49, in getsize
return os.stat(filename).st_size
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/etc/blkid.tab'
ckelty@beadle:/etc/backup$ ls -al /etc/blkid.
blkid.conf blkid.tab
ckelty@beadle:/etc/backup$ ls -al /etc/blkid.tab
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2011-07-23 16:47 /etc/blkid.tab -> /dev/.blkid.tab
ckelty@beadle:/etc/backup$ ls -al /var/www/boi-cms.old/current
lrwxrwxrwx 1 capistrano www-data 40 2012-04-12 14:20 /var/www/boi-cms.old/current -> /var/www/boi-cms/releases/20120412212119
ckelty@beadle:/etc/backup$

[seedifferently]

Thanks, I'll check it out when I finally get back to updating this project.

[coderpete]

In the meantime, should anyone come here for answers as I did, you can remove broken symlinks with

find -L /dir/to/traverse -type l -delete

Notes:
run without the "-delete" for a listing
works for me on mac osx and debian
source: http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/2369/find-broken-symlinks-and-delete-them

HTH,
Pete.

[zackse]

You can avoid purging dangling symlinks by applying zackse/boto_rsync@1813325, which will skip any files that cannot be stat()'ed.