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Re: rm fails to remove symbolic links to directories
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 19:08:15 +0200
- Subject: Re: rm fails to remove symbolic links to directories
- References: <425D42FA.2070009@swcp.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Apr 13 10:04, Lynn Wilson wrote:
> rm: cannot remove directory `xxxxx/': Is a directory
> [...]
>
> Is there a work-around for not being able to remove symbolic links to
> directories?
$ mkdir blah
$ ln -s blah blub
$ rm blub/
rm: cannot remove directory `blub/': Is a directory
$ rm blub
$ ls -l blub
$ ls: blub: No such file or directory
Corinna
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