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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.hawaii.edu!ames!olivea!uunet!pipex!ibmpcug!gtoal From: gtoal@ibmpcug.co.uk (Graham Toal) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Generic bsd question: how do I undo a ln -F link??? Message-ID: <ByFLJy.EFs@ibmpcug.co.uk> Date: 28 Nov 92 14:57:33 GMT Organization: The IBM PC User Group, UK. Lines: 13 Ahem. Embarrasing admission: I hard-linked a directory with ln -F and got the arguments wrong - I now have a directory dict in /usr/share/dict which points to /usr/share/dict :-( How do I break the link? I've tried rm and rmdir (even fetched the sources to see if there were any secret parameters like ln's -F) and tried a quick C prog to call unlink() directly. Nothing worked. help! Thanks G --