Solaris

Greetings,
I need some help performing a system admin function that I have been tasked with. The request seems simple enough, but my feeling is that it might be more complicated than it seems.
Here is what i've been tasked with:
SunOS 5.10 Generic_142900-15 sun4u sparc SUNW,SPARC-Enterprise
1).Remove a soft link between two nfs mounted filesystems.
2).Move all the files from /CV/in/data to /EABATCH/ENV/in/data

/EABATCH (wdcprodhome:/eabatch/EABATCH) soft link listed below
lrwxrwxrwx 1 batchop batchtaa 11 Mar 6 2009 data -> /CV/in/data

/CV (wdcprodhome:/CV )
/CV/in/data contains 2835 files.

Currently there is no /EABATCH/ENV/in/data, only a soft link to /CV/in/data.

My plan to to create a directory under /EABATCH/ENV/in and call it migrate.

copy all the files from /CV/in/data to /EABATCH/ENV/in/migrate

remove the soft link by issuing rm data from /EABATCH/ENV/in

create a directory name "data" under /EABATCH/ENV/in

move all file from /EABATCH/ENV/in/migrate to /EABATCH/ENV/in/data

Can someone tell me if my plan will work or is there a better approach?

If I understand, the softlink does not point to an existing directory. unlinking the soft link would not affect the directory (in the case it exists) in any way to begin with.

Plus it would be faster if there are lots of files in /EABATCH/ENV/in/migrate to:

Code:

mv /EABATCH/ENV/in/migrate /EABATCH/ENV/in/data

which just renames the directory.

I tried the suggestion to just rm the link with out the / at the end signifying it's a dir, however none of that worked. I just got in the dir where the soft link lived and did a rm -rf to it.

I hope that didn't destroy the contents of your link, then...

A bit late to figure out what you were doing wrong now, but deleting a symlink is easy:

Code:

$ ln -s / ./root
$ ls -l ./root
lrwxrwxrwx 1 username users 1 Dec  1 14:03 ./root -> /
$ rm ./root
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