remove symbolic links only

[eddyq]

I have a large tree. It is mostly links but has a bunch of files too. I want to recursively remove ONLY the links. Is there a way?

[Jonathan183]

you could try a combination of unlink and find -type l

[eddyq]

I think that would work but I don't know how to pass the output of find to unlink. I tried "find -type l | unlink" but that complained.

[atreyu]

Use the 'exec' function of find, e.g.:

 find . -type l -exec rm -vi {} \;

Not sure what diff b/t unlink and rm is, but rm will remove your links, too.

[eddyq]

That did it, thanks.

[Jonathan183]

for current folder and tree I'd try something like unlink $(find -type l) ... anyway glad you got it sorted