can't delete directory symlinks??

[Net Llama!]

On 12/21/03 11:33, Joel Hammer wrote:

> 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?

Nope, no aliases for rm.  The odd thing is, if I rename the directory, 
causing the symlink to become broken, then i can delete the symlink.

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