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Yes you can remove a soft link with the rm command and it won't remove the files in the linked directory.
But you can prove it to yourself by creating a temporary directory containing a temporary file, creating a temporary soft link to it and removing the link. CaKiwi
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good idea to test it, some versions of UNIX do it one way (remove the link but not the file) and some the other (remove the target file as well) Mike
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"Experience is the comb that Nature gives us, after we are bald."
Is that a haiku?
I never could get the hang
of writing those things.
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