Saturday, 29 September 2018

windows 7 - How can I delete a symbolic link?


I created a symlink using mklink. Now I need to change it but I can't figure out how to delete it so I can recreate it correctly.



Answer



Be very careful.


If you have a symbolic link that is a directory (made with mklink /d) then using del will delete all of the files in the target directory (the directory that the link points to), rather than just the link.


SOLUTION: rmdir on the other hand will only delete the directory link, not what the link points to.


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