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CollieJim 06-16-2020 03:18 AM
stop rm following links
 
When I try to use rm to delete a soft link, it wants to delete the target directory.

How do I stop that?

ehartman 06-16-2020 04:09 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by CollieJim (Post 6134857)
When I try to use rm to delete a soft link, it wants to delete the target directory.
Don't use a trailing /
So "rm link_file" will remove the link itself, but "rm link-file/" will try to remove what it is pointing TO.


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