[[!comment format=mdwn
 username="http://joeyh.name/"
 ip="4.154.0.140"
 subject="comment 1"
 date="2013-07-20T19:51:19Z"
 content="""
It's pretty easy to configure ls to show broken symlinks in a different color. Run dircolors, and alias ls='ls --color==auto'. Then you can see which files are not there at a glance.

The Linux file manager's I've tried (nautilus and thunar) also shows which files are present; you get a X on the icon of annexed files that are not present.
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