removing a soft link
 

Hi there,
I made a soft link to my /bin/ directory and now I want to remove it.
I created it as follows:
ln -s /bin/ binlink

neither "rm binlink" nor "unlink binlink" remove it. rm binlink yields the complaint that binlink is a directory, whereas rmdir and unlink say that it is not a Directory and refuse to remove it.

What do I do? Also, I am afraid of the sensitivity of the case since binlink is a link to my /bin/ folder.

ANy help is greatly appreciated.

P.S. I am going through a book on Linux, and I created the link just for testing purposes.

have you tried using the -rf flag to rm?

are you sure this won't remove everything from my /bin/ folder? I have not tried it? I'd rather not take chances and see what happens. what do you think?
P.S. I actually tried rm-r, but not -f. To no avail....

Plain old rm should work just fine. Do you perhaps have rm aliased to something strange? Try using a backslash prefix to bypass the alias:

As rknichols says, plain old rm will do it.

But be sure to NOT include the trailing '/' which will trigger the directory warning as it refers to the /bin/ directory itself - and yes rm -rf binlink/ WILL remove everythign from the /bin directory - DON'T DO THAT!.

:) rm binlink (wiithout the trailing slash worked fine).

I used tab for autocompletion of the link name and it adds the trailing slash, that's why it did not work.
Thanks a lot everyone, doughyi8u, rknichols, astrogeek.