Rm Is Funny :-)

[sanctus]

LOL, I was trying out to link a directory so I did

 

sandros@??? ln -s convert_tries/ link2convert

 

Seen that it works then I wanted to remove the link and what I did is:

 

sandros@??? ~> rm -r link2convert/

rm: cannot remove directory `link2convert/': Not a directory

sandros@??? ~> rm link2convert/

rm: cannot remove `link2convert/': Is a directory

 

 

Actually I thought it is only fun, but now I wonder how do I delete the link only, with rm link2convert/* ? Or does that actually delete the conent of convert_tries/ ?

[alexander]

add an f to it... f stands for just fucking do it, so i can forget about it....

[alexander]

also i link directories and files all the time. Oh oh major mistake, take the r out! use an rm -f

 

like this:

mkdir test

ln -s test test2

touch test/a

ls test

rm -f test2

ls test

 

 

doooone

[sanctus]

Ok it works, but the force option is not soo strong because to be sure (and see what touch test/a does) I tried your example.

 

sandros@??? ~> rm -f test/

rm: cannot remove `test/': Is a directory

 

-r though did the job.

 

And btw, THANKS! :-)

[C1ay]

Drop the trailing slash, just use rm linkname

[alexander]

And f is a pretty powerful option.