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removing a symbolic link

Name: matt
Date: September 8, 2002 at 19:36:24 Pacific
OS: RH 7.3
CPU/Ram: 1.4ghz 256

Comment:

hi: how do you chage / remove a symbolic link? i used something like: ln -s /dev/ttyS1 /dev/pilot I now want to make /dev/tty/ = /dev/pilot , it tells me that /dev/pilot already exists. i need to get rid of it and replace it, but how? matt

Name: David Perry
Date: September 9, 2002 at 04:26:35 Pacific

Reply:

rm /dev/pilot; cd /dev/ ; ln -s /dev/tty pilot

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Name: Tom
Date: September 9, 2002 at 08:50:59 Pacific

Reply:

Or you could use: ln -sf /dev/ttyS1 /dev/pilot The f option would force overwrite of the existing link.

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