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jamesmwlv 04-25-2003 11:17 AM
Help removing a symbolic link
 
I need to remove a symbolic link, but not remove the files. How is this accomplished?

webtoe 04-25-2003 11:37 AM
by deleting the symlink not the file. If you just delete the link, the file that it is pointing to will not be touched.
Code:
rm a_link_to_a_file
HTH

Alex

jamesmwlv 04-25-2003 11:47 AM
Thank you
 
Thank you, I new it was something simple.

webtoe 04-25-2003 11:51 AM
No worries. I was worried when I was a n00b coz I thought I had just annihilated my brand new kernel (which was in /usr/src/linux-2.2.18 with a link /usr/src/linux pointing to it) which had taken me the best part of a day to compile right coz I just blasted the link. I was relieved to find that this wasn't the case.

Alex


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