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Re: unlink


From: Philip Rowlands
Subject: Re: unlink
Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 02:20:09 +0100 (BST)

On Sat, 22 Oct 2005, Dave Richards wrote:

>If you accidentally use unlink on a real file, it won't do anything to
>it.

Not true. unlink is quite happy to delete real files; I'd even suggest
rm is safer, as it will prompt in certain circumstances where unlink
won't (--interactive or write-protected files).


Cheers,
Phil




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