[nzlug] Any way to edit broken soft links?

[Martin Bähr]

On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 03:29:24PM +1300, Raimund Eimann wrote:
> Why all the original filenames have changed? Because umlaut characters were no 
> longer displayed properly and I needed to run a convmv to convert all files 
> in a large filesystem from a latin1 encoding into utf-8.

in that case you should be able to write a script:

for each link:
  read link target;
  convert target to utf-8
  replace link with new one to converted target.

greetings, martin.
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