Feel like an idiot...stupid question

[clc2112]

How do you remove a symbolick link. I created it with ln -s trying to delete it gives me the following:

lrwxrwxrwx  1 root    root         26 Sep 11 10:01 junk -> /home/calvin/htmlparser1_5
[root@bbg web]# unlink junk/
unlink: cannot unlink `junk/': Not a directory
[root@bbg web]# rm -rf junk/
rm: cannot remove `junk/': Not a directory
[root@bbg web]# rm junk/
rm: cannot remove directory `junk/': Is a directory
[root@bbg web]#

thx

[foolish]

This is actually not a stupid question at all.

The trick is to not use tab-completion, and not add the / to the filename.
So you do:

rm junk

Not

rm junk/

And read the posting guidelines please: http://www.fedoraforum.org/guidelines.php

[ilja]

rm -d

try this

[jimbo]

By the way... There is no such thing as a stupid question (at least in this forum)

[clc2112]

THANKS ALL. It was the tab completion hanging me up.

thx!!!

[imdeemvp]

Originally Posted by jimbo

By the way... There is no such thing as a stupid question (at least in this forum)

i agree....even if we give the right or wrong answer.......