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 _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils