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 Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 7:08 pm Post subject: (SOLVED) How do I remove a symbolic link with the cli? |
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I noticed that when I try to remove a symbolic link through the commandline (rm -Rv foo) it tries to delete the linked folder as well. What is the correct procedure to remove symbolic link with the commandline?
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| Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 7:14 pm Post subject: Re: How do I remove a symbolic link with the commandline? |
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| Aniruddha wrote: | | I noticed that when I try to remove a symbolic link through the commandline (rm -Rv foo) it tries to delete the linked folder as well. What is the correct procedure to remove symbolic link with the commandline? |
That's probably because you you tell it to delete thing recursively. A symbolic link is just a file so just run this
Otherwise it will go through every folder it finds as well and delete it's contents then delete it.
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| Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 7:34 pm Post subject: |
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It's actually a combination of both answers 
| Code: | # rm -iv packages/
rm: cannot remove `packages/': Is a directory |
| Code: | # rm -iv packages
rm: remove symbolic link `packages'? |
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| Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 9:20 pm Post subject: |
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| The -v just turns on verbose output so it says what is being deleted exactly. and -i switch is the interactive switch, it asks you "are you sure?" about everything first. |
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| Zepp wrote: | | The -v just turns on verbose output so it says what is being deleted exactly. and -i switch is the interactive switch, it asks you "are you sure?" about everything first. |
Yeah I know, I always use these 
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