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hd01
Asked: 2011-07-24 19:47:48 +0800 CST

Run checklink utility of w3c

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I 've install w3c checklink utility to check my website for broken links. but i am really confused with its parameters. I just want to get number of broken link of my site.but i don't know how to run this utility.

would you help me?

Edited: I tried these commands:

$ checklink -s -b -D 2 http://mysite.com >site-report

$ checklink -b -D 2 http://mysite.com >site-report

but a long report is created and store in site-report file. i just want the number of broken links not what they are.

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2 Answers

  1. I don't believe that linkcheck has the ability to report only a count of broken links. It's not really something that is generally useful -- if you've got broken links, typically you'd like to know what they are so you can fix them.

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  2. You could just post-process the output of checklink with grep, awk or perl or something similar to count the number of broken links. e.g:

    checklink ... | grep "The link is broken" | wc -l
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