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Asked: 2025-02-05 20:29:10 +0800 CST

How to safely delete a symlink?

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This is my symlink:

export -> /home/company/test/var/export/

I tried to delete it with rm export/

Output: rm: cannot remove ‘export/’: Is a directory

So I tried unlink: unlink export/

Output: unlink: cannot unlink ‘export/’: Not a directory

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  1. Best Answer

    The problem is the trailing slash.

    rm export/ fails

    rm export works <--

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