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List backlinks, outgoing links, unresolved links, orphans (files with no incoming links), and dead-ends (files with no outgoing links).

Commands for Backlinks and Outgoing links.

List backlinks to a file (default: active file).

bash
file=<name>        # target file name
path=<path>        # target file path

counts             # include link counts
total              # return backlink count
format=json|tsv|csv  # output format (default: tsv)

List outgoing links from a file (default: active file).

bash
file=<name>        # file name
path=<path>        # file path

total              # return link count

unresolved ​

List unresolved links in vault.

bash
total              # return unresolved link count
counts             # include link counts
verbose            # include source files
format=json|tsv|csv  # output format (default: tsv)

orphans ​

List files with no incoming links.

bash
total              # return orphan count

deadends ​

List files with no outgoing links.

bash
total              # return dead-end count

See also ​

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