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Fix linking in windows bash environment #529

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@xshyamx xshyamx commented Jan 24, 2017

In windows the link command simply creates a copy of the directory and hence the removal of the directory fails without the -r flag

In windows the link command simply creates a copy of the directory and hence the removal of the directory fails without the `-r` flag
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Is this on Windows 10 bash? If so, it is a standard Ubuntu installation that definitely works, even on CI. We had unlink before which broke on cygwin, so we settled on a simple rm -f for removing the symlink.

@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ function __sdkman_link_candidate_version {

# Change the 'current' symlink for the candidate, hence affecting all shells.
if [[ -h "${SDKMAN_CANDIDATES_DIR}/${candidate}/current" || -d "${SDKMAN_CANDIDATES_DIR}/${candidate}/current" ]]; then
rm -f "${SDKMAN_CANDIDATES_DIR}/${candidate}/current"
rm -fr "${SDKMAN_CANDIDATES_DIR}/${candidate}/current"
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I would consider a recursive forced removal to be dangerous.

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This is on windows using git-bash

@marc0der marc0der force-pushed the master branch 4 times, most recently from 23b054e to 7ee2c51 Compare August 26, 2017 12:13
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