Re: Delete a Symbolic Link?

On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 12:12:55 +0000 (UTC)
per@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Per Hedeland) wrote:

In article <20060310231848.54f6fe86.steveo@xxxxxxxxxx> Steve
O'Hara-Smith <steveo@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Don't do that! It hurts! Just rm ./name_of_link no -r.

Probably good advice, but as pointed out in another followup, it's not
the -r but the (not mentioned in the original post) trailing slash that
hurts:

It's the combination - removing either the -r or the trailing /
stops the damage, but IMHO removing the -r is better viz:

steve@df1$ mkdir foo
steve@df1$ ln -s foo bar
steve@df1$ rm bar/
rm: bar/: is a directory

Nice safe error message and no damage. Also makes more sense,
if you don't want a recursive remove don't ask for one :)

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