can't delete directory symlinks??

[Joel Hammer]

You haven't aliased rm to mean something like rm -rf ?

Joel

On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 10:14:38AM -0800, Net Llama! wrote:
> I've just discovered some rather odd behavior when I can no longer 
> delete symlinks that point to directories.
> 
> For example, if I have:
> ln -s bar foo
> foo -> bar
> 
> where bar is a directory, if I try to delete foo:
> rm foo
> rm: cannot remove `foo/': Not a directory
> 
> Am i missing something obvious?
> 
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