Underneath the file system, files are represented by inodes. (Or is it multiple inodes? Not sure.) A file in the file system is basically a link to an inode. A hard link, then, just creates another file with a link to the same underlying inode. When you delete a file, it removes one link to … Read more
# this works: rm foo # versus this, which doesn’t: rm foo/ Basically, you need to tell it to delete a file, not delete a directory. I believe the difference between rm and rmdir exists because of differences in the way the C library treats each. At any rate, the first should work, while the … Read more
From linux symlink manual (assuming you are in Linux): A symbolic link is a special type of file whose contents are a string that is the pathname of another file, the file to which the link refers. (The contents of a symbolic link can be read using readlink(2).) So a symbolic link is one more … Read more
To create a new symlink (will fail if symlink exists already): ln -s /path/to/file /path/to/symlink To create or update a symlink: ln -sf /path/to/file /path/to/symlink