Wicked Cool Shell Scripts

#77 Identifying Broken Internal Links

The scripts in Chapter 7 highlighted the value and capabilities of the lynx text-only web browser, but there's even more power hidden within this tremendous software application. One capability that's particularly useful for a web administrator is the traverse function (which you enable by using -traversal), which causes lynx to try to step through all links on a site to see if any are broken. This feature can be harnessed in a short script.

The Code

#!/bin/sh

# checklinks - Traverses all internal 
 URLs on a website, reporting # any errors in the "traverse.errors" file. lynx="/usr/local/bin/lynx" # this might need to be tweaked # Remove all the lynx traversal output files upon completion: trap "/bin/rm ...