mdlynx

Small, fast tool to find broken file links in Markdown documents.

Features

• Checks whether Markdown file link targets exist

• Precompiled binaries available

• Fast

• Friendly error messages

• Safe, doesn't panic

• 61 lines of code

• GitHub actions:

  • install-mdlynx
  • mdlynx

Non-Features

• No recursive mode, use find/xargs/shell globs
• Not parallel, use xargs, make, or ninja
• Doesn't touch the network, doesn't check for broken web links

Install

Download a binary from the releases page, or build with Cargo:

cargo install mdlynx