Excess MonoBehaviours

Unity Engine
1

Is there an easy way to search for a MonoBehaviour specifically? I have a bunch that have built up over the life of my project from scripts that have been deleted and those objects being copy+pasted to other areas. (When you delete a script it leaves an empty MonoBehaviour on the objects that your script was attached to)

I want to write an editor script at some point to delete them all but if I do a GetComponentsInChildren on MonoBehaviour, it’s going to return all of my custom scripts as well if I’m not mistaken.

Ideas would be appreciated.

2

I’m pretty sure that you can’t access empty scripts and delete them.

3

Guess I’ll have to go through by hand then, thanks.

4

Missing scripts show up as null when you fetch all of a game object’s components:

Transform target = Selection.activeTransform;

foreach (Component c in target.GetComponents<Component>()) {
	if (c == null) {
		Debug.Log("Missing script");
	}
}

A non-null component can be removed with the DestroyImmediate() function, but I was unable to figure out a way to remove a null component. This could be used to discover which game objects have missing scripts attached, if that would save any time.

5

Finding where they all are could help, thanks Matthew Miner.