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RE: path names?

Juan Manuel Palacios writes:

> /Desktop --> /Desktop Folder (never could figure out why it
> was there
> in the first place)
>
> I decided to erase it since I didn't see much use for it:
>
> rm -rf /Desktop/

> When you deal with symbolic links
> the first tab-complete just puts the name there fore you and
> the second
> one appends the trailing slash... When the trailing slash is
> there the
> command acts on the target and not on the link itself. And
> please UNIX
> gurus, don't come telling me that's wrong and that I'm not
> understanding how links work

That appears to be BSD-specific behavior. Thankfully, it doesn't work
that way under Linux. (Not that that's particularly relevant to this
mailing list, but...)

--Michael
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