Missing links to multiple songs, looking for shortcut to delete all

i lost over half of my library doing some HDD cleaning. itunes then showed most of my songs were unlinked, because of the deleting. i found the backed up songs on an external drive and imported them into itunes. now i have doubles of nearly every song in my 40GB library.
so my question is this; is there a shortcut to deleting all 'broken-link' songs from your library at once?
i have tried using the 'show duplicates' and using apple-select on the broken songs, but an hour into doing that and i am just trough the b's. i need a shortcut to deleting all of the songs with missing links.

along the same lines...I have 2 external drives where I have stored music. In trying to consolidate, I copied all music from my F drive to my G drive and also made the G drive the default location for my iTunes library. However when I disconnect the F drive the songs that were originally recognized in my F drive show the dreaded '!' exclamation point; clicking on the song returns the error message "The song "xxxxxx" could not be used because the original file could not be found. Would you like to locate it?" I then have the option of going through the G drive and manually finding the song in order to link it to the songs in my library. Other than doing this manually for the thousands of songs iTunes can't find, is there an easier way to point iTunes to my G drive have it recognize all songs on the drive and forget about the original files located on my F drive?

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