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Started by Guest_Jame_* , Feb 20 2007 03:42 PM

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Guest_Jame_*
Posted 20 February 2007 - 03:42 PM

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How do I remove a soft link created with ln -s? I've done a man on ln and cannot find any information.

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Hektor
Posted 27 May 2007 - 05:01 PM

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I don't know if this is the correct way or not but I have always renamed the directory it was pointing to and then rm -rf the symbolic link.

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Prog
Posted 18 June 2007 - 02:12 PM

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rm -rf the link and I think it will not remove the real directory

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Guest_Jordan_*
Posted 31 August 2007 - 05:09 AM

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You can do a simple:

rm <dirname>

The linked directory doesn't have to be empty and you don't have to use rm -rf.

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Guest_Jame_*
Posted 23 October 2007 - 08:41 AM

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Thanks, works!
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