From 26d766596e12e0ca9b00422789a8b6afbc0c7fe8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2025 08:45:34 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] mdlinkcheck: add --dry-run to only show all found URLs

- remove the debug tracing leftovers from d9d2e339ced3fa02 that made exit
  unconditonally

Closes #19914
---
 scripts/mdlinkcheck | 14 +++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/mdlinkcheck b/scripts/mdlinkcheck
index f50d77527a..bd54d96fe2 100755
--- a/scripts/mdlinkcheck
+++ b/scripts/mdlinkcheck
@@ -84,6 +84,12 @@ my %whitelist = (
 my %url;
 my %flink;
 
+my $dry;
+if(defined $ARGV[0] && $ARGV[0] eq "--dry-run") {
+    $dry = 1;
+    shift @ARGV;
+}
+
 # list all files to scan for links
 my @files=`git ls-files docs include lib scripts src`;
 
@@ -207,10 +213,12 @@ for my $u (sort keys %whitelist) {
     }
 }
 
-for my $u (sort keys %url) {
-    print "$u\n";
+if($dry) {
+    for my $u (sort keys %url) {
+        print "$u\n";
+    }
+    exit;
 }
-exit;
 
 my $error;
 my @errlist;
-- 
2.47.3