Additionally in unix, where the name comes from, a file may have many names
(many hard links to a directory entry) so remove in this case is removing a
directory entry. Separately, when the link count of a file drops to zero, the
file is now inaccessible as you cannot link to something that does
On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 3:51 PM, bep wrote:
>
> I had this discussion with another Gopher about the difference between Delete
> and Remove.
>
> I found this definition which I agree on:
>
> "Delete and remove are defined quite similarly, but the main difference
> between them is that delete mean
In computer programming, remove means to remove some elements out of many
elements.
So, here you assume, there are many files in a container and when you you
remove a file, one file disappears and others remain. The whole container
remains the same.
delete/erase means to wipe out something comp
