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Pov Me, trying to remove a soft-link to a directory (discuss.tchncs.de)
submitted 1 year ago by heimchen@discuss.tchncs.de to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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[-] maxbossing@feddit.de 26 points 1 year ago

You need to remove the trailing slash, because a link is a file, but the shell interprets it as a directory

[-] rotopenguin@infosec.pub 4 points 1 year ago

The fun part is that tab completion insists on putting the slash there.

[-] heimchen@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

have you tried it?

[-] pacology@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Just use rm -rf and live on the edge.

[-] starman@programming.dev 9 points 1 year ago

Perfect time to reinstall the OS

/s

[-] exu@feditown.com 7 points 1 year ago

Use unlink instead

[-] kyokiluna1@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

rm -rf Stable-diffusion/

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