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Author: | hollymcr [ Fri Sep 02, 2011 8:47 am ] |
Post subject: | [SOLVED] Re: Removing a symlink to self ? |
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.) |
Author: | mattbatt [ Fri Sep 02, 2011 9:55 pm ] |
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thanks Hollymcr for creating an account just to help the community. 2 Karma points for you. |
Author: | hollymcr [ 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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