Re: Delete a Symbolic Link?

In article <20060311122256.7f7f3490.steveo@xxxxxxxxxx> Steve
O'Hara-Smith <steveo@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
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:

On the other hand, removing the trailing / actually gets some useful
work done.:-)

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

Agreed, recursively removing a symlink makes no sense - but it does
work.:-)

--Per Hedeland
per@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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