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PostPosted: Fri Sep 02, 2011 8:47 am 
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chrisj wrote:
I messed up a symlink and now can't remove it

rm -rf video dose not do it , any hints ?

Code:
video -> video


Old thread but the only one that comes up in Google for this problem, and I found a workaround so I thought I'd post it in case its useful to anyone else.

The trick is to relink to something else (whether or not the something else exists is irrelevant). So:
Code:
ln -sf x video
rm video

.. first forces ln to replace the link with a new one pointing to non-existant file "x", then rm is allowed to remove it.

(In my case this was not on a KnoppMyth system but an old Linux web server but I think the solution would be fairly general.)


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thanks Hollymcr for creating an account just to help the community. 2 Karma points for you. :)

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PostPosted: Mon Sep 05, 2011 3:08 am 
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mattbatt wrote:
thanks Hollymcr for creating an account just to help the community. 2 Karma points for you. :)


Thanks, but in the interests of honesty I already had the account having created it several years ago but never actually posted using it!

Hopefully I'll get chance to play with Myth again shortly, never quite got to a working system (but that was several years ago!)


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