On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 05:58:49 GMT, Mark Healey <die@spammer.die> wrote: | [mark@Buttercup mark]$ ls -l | total 8 | lrwxrwxrwx 1 mark mark 27 Nov 15 21:50 audiobooks -> /usr/local/media/ | audiobooks | lrwxrwxrwx 1 mark mark 22 Nov 15 21:50 books -> /usr/local/media/books | [mark@Buttercup mark]$ rm audiobooks/ | rm: cannot remove directory `audiobooks/': Is a directory | [mark@Buttercup mark]$ rmdir audiobooks/ | rmdir: audiobooks/: Not a directory | | | How do I get rid of those links? Remove the trailing '/' character from the link names in the 'rm' command. This forces the link to be resolved into a directory name. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/~paulcol Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read this first: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro