I did:
ln -s /DATA/ ./base_DATA/
and I'd like to unlink. Simply:
unlink ./base_DATA
but... unlink: cannot unlink './base_DATA': Is a directory
According to this answer (and many other online) the problem is usually the trailing space in the unlink command. But I get this error regardless.
Any ideas how to tackle this?
./base_DATA/ is a normal directory that existed before. Your ln command created a symlink inside it. The symlink is ./base_DATA/DATA. You can unlink it:
unlink ./base_DATA/DATA
on Red Hat, when you had directory A and did
ln -s A B
successfully, and now would like to unlink B do:
mv A AA
rm B
mv AA A
and you are back to your original directory name A without the soft link.
