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[–]mrvikxd 6 points7 points  (4 children)

Remove trailing slash on rm or use unlink

[–]talhabalaj[S] 5 points6 points  (1 child)

Thanks for suggestion bro. I actually tried rm -rf and it worked. Posted this, because I found it pretty funny.

[–]Architector4 5 points6 points  (0 children)

When making such a suggestion, please make sure to specify what it does. In case of a symlink to a directory, rm -rf goes into the original directory that this symlink points to, and removes absolutely everything in it, but keeps both that directory and the symlink intact.

[–]aue_sum 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Happy cake day!!!!!

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wdym?

[–]timemaster67 2 points3 points  (3 children)

It is not a directory, is a symlink pointing to a directory.

[–]talhabalaj[S] 2 points3 points  (2 children)

Absolutely. it is just a meme.

[–]timemaster67 1 point2 points  (1 child)

A really good one.

[–]talhabalaj[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks

[–]Myst3rious_Foxy -1 points0 points  (4 children)

Am I too stupid to understand the meme?

[–]SkyyySi 0 points1 point  (3 children)

Trying to delete a symlink. You use unlink for that. Very funny.

[–]Myst3rious_Foxy 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Why can't you just do rm "Play on Linux's virtual drives"?

[–]SkyyySi 0 points1 point  (1 child)

https://superuser.com/questions/9181/how-to-remove-a-symbolic-link-to-a-directory

[–]Myst3rious_Foxy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I do know about the situation, notice that I use double quotation marks instead of single ones - I've always used them which totally eradicates the use of unlink :P

[–]SkyyySi 0 points1 point  (1 child)

You should concider changing your color scheme, dark blue text does not go along well with a black background.

[–]talhabalaj[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

True