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cc: Steve Bertrand <iaccounts@northnetworks.ca>
Subject: Re: symlink confusion
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On Wednesday 12 November 2003 20:38, Marty Landman wrote:
> At 03:00 PM 11/12/2003, you wrote:
> ># ln -s /home/steve/directory /tmp/directory
> ># rm /tmp/directory
> >
> >In testing, the original directory (/home/steve/directory) did not get
> > removed
>
> I'm a newbie Steve so maybe will be asking more than answering here. But
> isn't it the case that with a soft link as you created in the first line in
> the second line you'd only be deleting the link itself and not the actual
> directory? But if you used a hard link

You can't make hard links to directories.
See ln(1) for more info.

> # ln /home/steve/directory /tmp/directory
> # rm /tmp/directory
>
> then the real directory would be deleted?
>
>
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