rm symlink removes the target
Leonardo Milano <[email protected]>
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Dear fileutils maintainers I recently upgraded my distro to Mandrake 9.0, which comes with fileutils-4.1.11-5mdk I systematically have a problem removing symbolic links If I do "rm -i symbolic_link_name", it goes to the directory to which the symlink points to and asks me to delete each file. I understand from the docs that rm is still supposed to remove the link, not the target. Is that an unreported change in behavior or a bug ?. If it's a bug, I would be very happy to give you any more info as you need it Many many thanks for suck wonderful utils -- leo ----------------------------------------------------- Leonardo J. Milano Bartol Research Institute, University of Delaware 217 Sharp Lab., Newark, DE 19716, USA Tel: +1 302.831.1579 * [email protected] Fax: +1 302.831.1843 * http://udel.edu/~lmilano/ -----------------------------------------------------