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) <962-396-1...@kylheku.com> wrote: > 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 > > :) > -- Regards, Peng
