On 12-08-2010 04:25, steve wrote:
On 08/12/2010 04:41 PM, Balaji Damodaran wrote:
On Thursday 12 August 2010 04:01 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
how did this happen? I am always rm'ing links and the directories
never
get deleted.
sudo rm link-name - won't be a problem.
sudo rm link-name/ - deletes the underlying directory.
Yes, that's exactly what I did.
Yet, shouldn't it have deleted sym-links under the link-name.
Is it because, I linked a directory instead of linking individual files?
...and that's the reason why 'unlink' exists. You are unambiguous that
way.
Now, I'll forever remember 'unlink'.
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Anthoni Shogan
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