Ubuntu – How to remove symbolic link

symbolic-link

I was trying to create this symbolic link:

sudo ln -s /usr/share/phpmyadmin /var/www/phpmyadmin

but I accidentally typed:

sudo ln -s /usr/share/php,yad,in /var/www/phpmyadmin

So now I want to correct it but it says symbolic link already exist.

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You can use rm to delete the symlink.

Example:

-rw-rw-r-- 1 2014-01-02 09:21 tmo
lrwxrwxrwx 1 2014-01-02 09:21 tmo2 -> tmo

Then ...

 rm tmo2

will remove the symlink.

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EDIT: the solution below does not work. It is apparent that the symbolic link is broken, because file -L cannot open the symbolic link /usr/bin/bla. In this case, do the following:

sudo ln -sf /opt/bladir/bla /usr/bin/bla

using full paths (-f is to force overwriting the previous symbolic link, if there is one).

Hm. I think that the program "bla" may be looking for things that are installed in /opt/bladir and cannot find them. For example, it can be a shell script wrapper around a Java executable, with path relative to current directory: but your current directory is /usr/bin/, and not /opt/bladir/.

If the following works

file -L /usr/bin/bla

...then it is definitely not a problem with your symbolic link.

Check whether "bla" is a shell script that you can modify, take a look inside -- maybe you will find the problem. Possibly, adding /opt/bladir to your PATH would be a better solution.

Ubuntu – Creating a symbolic link to a directory

Thanks everyone for your suggestions. I found it easiest to understand how to do it (though I still don't understand the logic behind it) with:

cd ~/workspace_b4a
cd android-sdk-linux
cd platform-tools
ln -sv ../build-tools/20.0.0/lib/ .

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