How do I remove a soft link? (SOLVED)

podollb · Apprentice Joined: 05 May 2005 Posts: 190

I have created a soft link and now I can't remove the darn thing... What am I doing wrong?

I could have sworn that I just ran "rm" on previous soft links I had created (in recent history), but I have just started using Gentoo and I can't seem to get the job done. So either I am going crazy or there is another way to remove them... Here is my attempts as recorded by the terminal:

ying tmp # ls -la htd*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 Jun 13 17:31 htdocs -> /var/www/localhost/htdocs/
ying tmp # rm htdocs/
rm: cannot remove `htdocs/': Not a directory
ying tmp # rmdir htdocs/
rmdir: `htdocs/': Not a directory
ying tmp # rm -f htdocs/
rm: cannot remove `htdocs/': Not a directory
ying tmp #

John-Boy · Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 4:55 am Post subject:

Just rm htdocs (no slash) doesn't work ?
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Maedhros · Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 8:17 am Post subject:

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podollb · Apprentice Joined: 05 May 2005 Posts: 190

Yep that was it, I knew it was something simple... Thanks.