From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 6 12:02:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA02129 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 12:02:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rosencrantz.citytel.net (rosencrantz.rupert.net [204.244.98.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA02039 for ; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 12:02:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kwoody@citytel.net) Received: from mybsd.net (citytelprct103.citytel.net [204.244.99.134]) by rosencrantz.citytel.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA07682; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 12:01:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mybsd.net (mybsd.net [192.168.0.2]) by mybsd.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id JAA06484; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 09:10:09 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 09:10:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Keith Woodworth To: Neil Blakey-Milner cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: ln dir'y In-Reply-To: <19980806135543.A7795@rucus.ru.ac.za> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: > On Wed 1998-08-05 (22:40), Keith Woodworth wrote: > > /usr/home/~kwoody --> kwoody > > > > cd /usr/home > rm ./~kwoody Geez, how bloody obvious...I had only tried ln -f thinking I had to get rid of the symlink that way as per the ln man page. I forgot that it is acutally a file pointing to my directory... thanks, Keith. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message