Hi all,
have a nice day...!
anybody know how to delete the softlink to a directory with out removing the directory itself.

regards
-sudevan

Just use "rm link name"? Seems to work fine for me.

Quoting what i tried in my RH9 m/c

[sudevan@pele-2 tmp]$ mkdir test
[sudevan@pele-2 tmp]$ ln -s test linktest
[sudevan@pele-2 tmp]$ ls -lcrt
total 4
drwxrwxr-x 2 sudevan sudevan 4096 Mar 7 16:22 test
lrwxrwxrwx 1 sudevan sudevan 4 Mar 7 16:22 linktest -> test
[sudevan@pele-2 tmp]$ rm linktest/
rm: cannot remove `linktest/': Not a directory
[sudevan@pele-2 tmp]$ rm link linktest/
rm: cannot remove `link': No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove `linktest/': Not a directory
rm: cannot remove `llink': No such file or directory
[sudevan@pele-2 tmp]$ rm link test
rm: cannot remove `link': No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove `test': Is a directory
[sudevan@pele-2 tmp]$

rm link linktest

try rmdir linktest?

The correct command is 'rm linktest'. Note, no trailing slash. When you add the trailing slash, it tries to descend into the directory instead of acting on the link itself.

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Hi thats work fine. the problem is we use 'TAB' forauto complete thats why appending '/' happening. Thanks a lot