[CentOS] Very weird problem with handling symbolic links

Mon Sep 17 09:11:25 UTC 2018
Nicolas Kovacs <info at microlinux.fr>

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

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