The manual page for CheckLinks.

Name

chklinks - check links on a webpage

Synopsis

chklinks [-f file] [-q |-v]

Description

chklinks is a program that checks if links on a webpage are working.

Checking of the links is done in the following order:

1. read the webpages (as URLs) from a file or the standard input
2. connect to the supplied URLs and parse all links in the anchor tags
3. try to connect to the found links and record the status

After all links have been checked, chklinks shows a summary of the tested links and shows all links that have been found broken.

The supported schemes/protocols are HTTP, HTTPs and FTP. Other schemes will be skipped (including the javascript and mailto schemes).

The following options are supported:

-f file

• Read from file instead of the standard input.

-q

• Quiet mode, don't show progress in percentage but only the summary on completion. This flag is automatically set when chklinks is not run from a terminal.

-v

• Verbose mode, show each link that's being parsed and tested.

Author

Peter Postma <peter@pointless.nl>