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Re: What is the difference between unlink and rm -f?
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Peng Yu |
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Re: What is the difference between unlink and rm -f? |
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Wed, 29 Jan 2020 20:42:20 -0600 |
So a one-line summary is
When the target can be delete, unlink and rm -f are the same;
otherwise, unlink will complain about the error and exit with 1, but
rm -f will do neither.
On 1/29/20, Kaz Kylheku (Coreutils) <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 2020-01-29 01:45, Peng Yu wrote:
>> Hi,
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>> It seems to me unlink and rm -f are the same if the goal is the delete
>> files. When are they different? Thanks.
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> I answered this on Unix Stackexchange in 2016:
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> https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/326711/16369
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> :)
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Regards,
Peng