Tom wrote regarding 'Re: [SLE] How do I remove a sym link?' on Tue, Aug 31 at 17:22:
On Tuesday 31 August 2004 03:10 pm, Danny Sauer wrote:
Eh, whatever. I just felt like I oughtta contribute to the thread, too. I hate being left out. :)
--Danny LOL - That's the attitude!
Ya, I ln -s file2 to file2. That took care of it...I think.
Was that a typo? If not, then you have two symbolic links that are doing nothing but 1) taking up space and 2) providing entries in the directory listing. In most cases, neither of those things are really desirable. Far be it from me to tell you how to use your filesystem, but something linked to itself is almost as useless as something linked to something linked to itself. You've just got a couple of filenames that can not contain any data, basically. I'd go on, but I think that perhaps a description of what a symlink actually *is* might be in order. Again, I'm making assumptions, but it seems like you may not have a very good handle on what a symlink is for, what it does, etc. :) --Danny, hoping to be corrected if wrong