On Thu, 2010-08-12 at 16:41 +0530, 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.
[law...@xlquest ~]$ mkdir testdir [law...@xlquest ~]$ cd testdir [law...@xlquest testdir]$ touch one [law...@xlquest testdir]$ touch two [law...@xlquest testdir]$ ls one two [law...@xlquest testdir]$ cd .. [law...@xlquest ~]$ ln -s /home/lawgon/testdir/ slink [law...@xlquest ~]$ rm slink/ rm: cannot remove `slink/': Not a directory -- regards KG http://lawgon.livejournal.com _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
