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Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 19:08:15 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: rm fails to remove symbolic links to directories
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On Apr 13 10:04, Lynn Wilson wrote:
> rm: cannot remove directory `xxxxx/': Is a directory
> [...]
> 
> Is there a work-around for not being able to remove symbolic links to 
> directories?

$ mkdir blah
$ ln -s blah blub
$ rm blub/
rm: cannot remove directory `blub/': Is a directory
$ rm blub
$ ls -l blub
$ ls: blub: No such file or directory


Corinna

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