Re: What is the difference between unlink and rm -f?

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From:	Kaz Kylheku (Coreutils)
Subject:	Re: What is the difference between unlink and rm -f?
Date:	Wed, 29 Jan 2020 15:02:55 -0800
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On 2020-01-29 01:45, Peng Yu wrote:

Hi,

It seems to me unlink and rm -f are the same if the goal is the delete
files. When are they different? Thanks.


I answered this on Unix Stackexchange in 2016:

https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/326711/16369

:)

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