I am writing a shell script (bash) for system administration.Now in that script, I want to check whether a perticular soft
link on the system is dead or alive.

I want something like this,

if [ alive ]
then
......
else
......
fi

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I just tested it and dead symlinks fail "if [ -e file ]" but pass "if [ -h file ]".

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[ -e file ] worked.

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