Re: [CentOS] Very weird problem with handling symbolic links

Le 17/09/2018 à 11:05, Nicolas Kovacs a écrit :

$ mkdir test_link $ cd test_link/ $ ln -s /tmp/ link_to_tmp $ ls -l total 0 lrwxrwxrwx. 1 kikinovak kikinovak 5 Sep 17 10:56 link_to_tmp -> /tmp/ $ rm link_to_tmp/ rm: cannot remove ‘link_to_tmp/’: Is a directory $ rmdir link_to_tmp/ rmdir: failed to remove ‘link_to_tmp/’: Not a directory

I'll answer that myself, since I just found the culprit. The trailing slash in `link_to_tmp/` caused the problem.

$ rm link_to_tmp <-- works perfectly

This must be one of those rare occasions where tab completion does *not* come in handy.

Cheers,

Niki