On Thursday 28 November 2002 10:35 am, robin wrote:
> John Richard Smith wrote:
> > How do you remove a symbolic link.
> >
> > neither man ln, nor info ln , even mentions it.
>
> I've always found rm works fine. What you can't do is directly replace
> one symbolic link with another.
>
> Sir Robin
rm -f <symbolic-link> will remove the link (non-interactively), if you have
the permission.
I often re-direct symbolic links with;
ln -sf <target> <symbolic-link>
the -f option will force an effective overwrite of the existing link.
Robin Ballantine
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