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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