On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 02:41:51PM +1100, Simon Males wrote: > Been there. > > rm link > > No trailing slash.
No, that removes the link, not the directory pointed to by the link. Thanks anyway. > > I must be missing something simple. > > > > $ mkdir dir > > $ ln -s dir link > > $ rm link/ > > rm: cannot remove `link/': Not a directory > > $ rm -f link/ > > rm: cannot remove `link/': Not a directory > > $ rm -rf link/ > > rm: cannot remove `link/': Not a directory > > $ rmdir link/ > > rmdir: link/: Not a directory > > $ rm -rf link/. > > rm: cannot remove `.' or `..' > > > > Of course I could go 'rm -rf dir' but how do I find the name 'dir' > > from the symbolic link name 'link'. > -- > Simon Males <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Norman Gaywood, Systems Administrator University of New England, Armidale, NSW 2351, Australia Please avoid sending me Word or Power Point attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
