Linkchecker

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A usefull tool to check webpages: linkchecker

install

Ubuntu (debian):

apt-get install linkchecker

Gentoo:

emerge linkchecker

usage:

linkchecker [OPTIONS] URL

URL can be any page, local or external, even an ftp-address is valid. Interesting are the ouput options. Linkchecker produces a readable html-output but also a graphical one if requestet. Here a list with available outputs:

text, html, sql, csv, gml, gxml, dot, blacklist,  xml.

One can also choose recursion-depth and can exclude branches of the tree with regex.

usefull for scripting too