check for stale system table entries in one line

Submitted by Benjamin Melançon on March 21, 2010 - 12:36pm

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missing files drupal module remove stale system files

for file in mysql dbname -e "SELECT filename FROM system" | sed "1d"; do [ ! -f $file ] && echo $file; done

This lists all the files from the system table that do not exist in the actual file system anymore.

In our experience, this more often mean modules with bad uninstall practices, rather than modules deleted without uninstalling.

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