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How to remove a symbolic link to a directory?

Fresh5 days ago
Mar 15, 2026240542 views
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Problem

I am using Ubuntu 8.10, Bash and I made a symbolic link with the following command: I want to remove it now but my rm fails: How can I remove my symbolic link?

Error Output

ln -s ../test5

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