Re: How to overwrite a symbolic link?

[Bob Proulx]

Pierre Gaston wrote:
> Peng Yu wrote:
> > Suppose that I have a symbolic link link1 pointing to file1. When I
> > write to link1, I don't want file1 change. I want it to remove the
> > link generated a new file and write to it.
> >
> > pipe '>' will change file 1. I'm wondering if there is way to do so,
> > so that I don't have to test whether it is a symbolic link or not
> > explicitly.
>
> rm link1

  rm -f link1

The -f will prevent a stat(2) of the target before removal and will
prevent a warning if the target has already been removed or otherwise
does not exist.

Bob