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Subject: Removing a Symbolic Link
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From: "Jean-Sebastien Valois" <jsvalois AT excite DOT com>
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Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 14:20:28 -0500 (EST)


Hi,

I was wondering if you could tell me how to delete symbolic links?  I tried rm -f mylink at got the following error:

"rm: cannot unlink `mylink': Permission denied

If the command "unlink" is the solution, where can I find it in the cygwin installation program?

Regards,
JSV

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