Ralph Shumaker wrote: > Someone here told me a convenient way to create a link in Nautilus, > namely dragging a file or directory to where I want the link, but before > letting go of the mouse drag button, press Alt. Letting go with the Alt > key down gives a little popup menu. > > Now, I'd like to know of an easy way to delete *just* the link, not what > it's pointing to. I'd like an easy mouse-driven way, but presently I > cannot even find a command line way. man ln doesn't give anything > useful that I can see. apropos didn't show much of promise either. > > I have a way to do it, but it involves too many steps, namely renaming > what the link points to, deleting the now-dangling link, then renaming > the object back.
I believe you are trying to make it more complicated than it is! Just delete it. With point and right-click, drag-to-trash (yuk), or command line rm. The link (only) will be removed -- not the target. Try it on links to some test files just to reassure yourself. Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-newbie
