On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 05:58:49 GMT, Mark Healey wrote:
| [mark@Buttercup mark]$ ls -l
| total 8
| lrwxrwxrwx 1 mark mark 27 Nov 15 21:50 audiobooks -> /usr/local/media/
| audiobooks
| lrwxrwxrwx 1 mark mark 22 Nov 15 21:50 books -> /usr/local/media/books
| [mark@Buttercup mark]$ rm audiobooks/
| rm: cannot remove directory `audiobooks/': Is a directory
| [mark@Buttercup mark]$ rmdir audiobooks/
| rmdir: audiobooks/: Not a directory
|
|
| How do I get rid of those links?


Remove the trailing '/' character from the link names in the 'rm'
command. This forces the link to be resolved into a directory name.


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