How to find broken symbolic links, a.k.a. soft links or symlinks. This is very easy to do on Linux, or actually on any operating system providing the GNU version of the 'find' command. If you're stuck with a Posix version of 'find', as is the case with FreeBSD, you can still do it. The solution is a little more complex, and it requires some caution. But then the overly complicated 'find' command…