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Unix BASH Scripting - Removing unreferenced files

I have the following script which has been created below. The idea is to identify any 'war' files within a directory that haven't got a symbolic link pointing to them and remove them.

So first it needs to find the name of the link file, to store it to a temporary location, then finds war files and compares.....

However I cant get the first line to work and am getting the following error:
find: bad option -ls

Any suggestions anyone?

#/usr/bin/ksh
cd /home/T104AHE

find . -type l -ls |awk '{print $NF}' >/tmp/$$

find. -name *.war -type f | while read file
do
        file=${file##./}
        echo $file | grep -qf /tmp/$$ && rm -f $file
done

rm -f /tmp$$

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woolmilkporc

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Lico_w

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Thanks that worked. However this seems to take the name of the link, I would like if possible to take the name of the file it is pointing to and store that in the temporary file, how would I do that?

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Superdave

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woolmilkporc

Correct, sorry!

Lico_w

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Perfect thanks. I had to update me script a tad also as it was removing those files that WERE linked whereas I wanted to remove those that WEREN'T.

One thing I get the below message when I run the script, is this anything to be worried about?

sh: ./new_tidy.sh:: not found.

woolmilkporc

OK,

the "&&" should have been "||", right?

As for the other problem:

Look at the first line of your script:

#/usr/bin/ksh

should be:

#!/usr/bin/ksh

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Lico_w

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Perfect many thanks!!!!