Re: ln -sf foo symlink_to_directory

[Paul Eggert]

address@hidden (Paul Jarc) writes:

> > "rm --as-is foo" would be equivalent to "unlink foo", and
> 
> I didn't suggest adding this option to rm.  rm's determination of
> whether to treat the path as a directory is already determined
> entirely from the command line, from -r/-R.

Not exactly: if foo is an empty directory, "rm -r foo" calls rmdir
("foo"), whereas "rm --as-is foo" would call unlink ("foo") and then
would fail on most modern hosts.

> > But I tend to prefer adding a flag to the existing commands.
> > But I prefer Bruno's suggestion of adding a flag to the existing commands.
> 
> Eh?

An editing error on my part.  Sorry.