Some thoughts / notes:
1. On our Ubuntu-Server 20.04.3 based systems, /bin/rm and /usr/bin/rm are hard
links to the same file.
2. Put the following in a bash script and run it from cron. Then you can see
what your environment is. Mine has PATH=/usr/bin:/bin in it.
#!/bin/bash
env > /tmp/env$$
3. You can background Python just as well as you can a separate rm invocation.
if os.fork() == 0:
os.unlink(….)
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Date: Wednesday, October 12, 2022 at 5:03 PM
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Subject: Re: Find the path of a shell command
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> On 2022-10-12 at 17:43:18 +0100, Paulo da Silva
> <p_d_a_s_i_l_v_a...@nonetnoaddress.pt> wrote:
>>
>> > Probably you could use os.unlink[1] with no problem.
>>
>> No, because I need to launch several rm's that keep running after the script
>> ends.
>
> rm doesn't take that long.
Recursive ones can take a long time.
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