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symbolic links which are difficult to remove 18 January 2000

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From time to time, I've had trouble removing a symbolic link. I'd get this:

# rm nz.freebsd.org.old
rm: nz.freebsd.org.old/: is a directory

I was told to use the full path. Which I did. And it worked:

# rm /www/nz.freebsd.org.old

I'm also told that this should also work:

# rm ./nz.freebsd.org.old

Go figure.

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