Follow symlinks and ignore broken ones

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1

What is the problem you are having with rclone?

I would like to know if there is any way of following symlinks but quietly ignoring broken symlinks. I know --copy-links copies the pointed file, but it gives me an error when a symlink is broken.

Run the command 'rclone version' and share the full output of the command.

rclone v1.65.0

  • os/version: centos 8.4.2105 (64 bit)
  • os/kernel: 4.18.0-305.7.1.el8_4.x86_64 (x86_64)
  • os/type: linux
  • os/arch: amd64
  • go/version: go1.21.4
  • go/linking: static
  • go/tags: none

Which cloud storage system are you using? (eg Google Drive)

Google Drive

The command you were trying to run (eg rclone copy /tmp remote:tmp)

I'm checking the size for now, but would like to do this with the copy command as well.

rclone size . --copy-links

Please run 'rclone config redacted' and share the full output. If you get command not found, please make sure to update rclone.

[Drive]
type = drive
client_id = XXX
client_secret = XXX
scope = drive
token = XXX
team_drive = XXX
root_folder_id =

A log from the command that you were trying to run with the -vv flag

2023/12/01 15:44:36 ERROR : /path/to/some/file: Listing error: symlink: stat /path/to/some/file: no such file or directory
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2023/12/01 15:44:38 Failed to size with 29 errors: last error was: symlink: stat /path/to/some/file: no such file or directory
2

Generate a list of broken links and exclude them from your rclone command.

rclone size . --copy-links --exclude-from /path/to/broken_links.txt

One way to generate such list could be to use GNU find program:

find * -xtype l -fprint /path/to/broken_links.txt

3

That sounds like a good solution, but for some reason it is not working for me. I'm still getting the same error messages.

4

Because you are doing something wrong. And I have no special powers to see what you are doing so good luck with fixing it yourself.

It works perfectly for me.

5

Unnecessarily rude, but ok. Is it within your special powers to share your rclone version and what your broken_links file looks like so that I can fix it myself?