deleting symbolic links

[Ravinder Singh Gill]

how do i remove/delete symbolic links?

[A. Clay Stephenson · Accepted solution]

You simply rm them. For example, if mylink is a symbolic link for myfile then "rm mylink" will remove only the link leaving myfile alone. It's also possible to "rm myfile" and that will leave mylink pointing to nothing --- which is legal as well although when you attempt to open the file mylink points to, you will get an error.

[jayachandran.g]

Hi Ravinder Singh

You can use the ordinary rm command to delete the symbolic links but which file you want to delete the source r the destination.
then make sure that you are deleting all the files.

you can use ls -L command to knoww the links of a file.

bye bye

[Ravinder Singh Gill]

Thanks for your help