Re: 16,000.000 symlinks - yikes!

[Alchemist]

2014-12-26 0:58 GMT+02:00 Geoffrey Leach :
> A rogue printer daemon appears to have filled up /tmp with 16,000.000
> symlinks. Question: how to delete them? (Sometime before the end of 2015)
> --

without remount/reboot

find /tmp -type l -delete or find /tmp -name "*filenamepattern*" -type l
-delete

replace -type to -xtype for broken symlinks if any

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