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Daniel W.
Asked: 2013-05-29 15:52:45 +0800 CST

delete empty file link

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I accidently made a link and can't delete that:

big:~# ls -al
total 88
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    27 May 28 18:10   -> /etc/apache2/ssl/apache.pem
drwx------  8 root root  4096 May 29 01:45 .
drwxr-xr-x 23 root root  4096 May 27 04:50 ..
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  4096 Apr 18 19:26 backup_big

I don't wonna do experiments with "rm" :-D

debian

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    In bash you can do this:

    shopt -s extglob
for file in !(testfile); do echo "x${file}x"; done

    and replace echo by rm (and delete the x) when you are convinced that it works.

    If this is GNU:

    ls -l --quoting-style= # with shell/c/escape whatever fits your need best

    Or with find:

    find . -type l -exec ls -l {} \;

    and replace -exec ... with -delete (or the ls -l with rm).

    Or you rename it (mv instead of rm) in one of these ways and delete is manually afterwards.

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