On Tuesday 31 August 2004 12:32, Damon Register wrote:
Patrick Shanahan wrote:
this is a tough one. I agree, a search would have taken a *long* time. At least as long as to type the search term into the form block
Yes, it is a tough one. I've been down this road before. I had the same question but that "FM" that you and some others tell us to read doesn't make the answer clear. While to you and some it might be obvious that rm works only on the link, it wasn't so obvious in that "FM", not even in "Running Linux" from O'Reily.
Thanks to Randall and Jim for your helpful answers
apropos link: a lot of lines, one of them is 'ln', the tool to create links. man ln: somewhere in it, it is advised to use 'info coreutils ln', because the info files contain more information than the man pages. info coreutils ln: press the <Tab>-key once, it jumps to '*Note Symbolic Links:', then hit <Enter>. That page should give you enough info to at least *try* to *think* of the 'rm' command. apropos remove: lists among others the script 'cleanlinks'. That could tempt you to see if it is a readable file, and have a look at it. That would show you the most crucial information on how to remove symlinks: it has an example! ;D Yes, a real-world example. The FM has more info than you think. ;P You only need to know how to get the most out of it. Information retrieval (how to find info) is getting more and more important. Cheers, Leen