make rm not follow symlinks
Is there any way to make rm remove just a symlink itself, not both the link and the file it links to?
Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.4.9)
Uhhm, is this a trick question?
That's the default behavior:
zsh-% cd /tmp
zsh-% mkdir test
zsh-% cd test
zsh-% touch foo
zsh-% ln -s foo bar
zsh-% ls -l
total 8
lrwxr-xr-x 1 wgscott wheel 3B Jun 7 16:47 bar@ -> foo
-rw-r--r-- 1 wgscott wheel 0B Jun 7 16:47 foo
zsh-% rm bar
remove bar? y
zsh-% ls
foo
zsh-%
That's the default behavior:
zsh-% cd /tmp
zsh-% mkdir test
zsh-% cd test
zsh-% touch foo
zsh-% ln -s foo bar
zsh-% ls -l
total 8
lrwxr-xr-x 1 wgscott wheel 3B Jun 7 16:47 bar@ -> foo
-rw-r--r-- 1 wgscott wheel 0B Jun 7 16:47 foo
zsh-% rm bar
remove bar? y
zsh-% ls
foo
zsh-%