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Re: Remove directory tree without following symlinks

From Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: Remove directory tree without following symlinks
Date 2016-04-23 23:37 +1200
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Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> But seriously, where is that documented? I've read the man page for rm, and
> it doesn't say anything about treatment of symlinks

The Linux man page seems to be a bit deficient on this.
The BSD version contains this sentence:

      The rm utility removes symbolic links, not the files referenced by the
      links.

-- 
Greg

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Remove directory tree without following symlinks Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-04-23 00:56 +1000
  Re: Remove directory tree without following symlinks Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> - 2016-04-22 11:09 -0400
    Re: Remove directory tree without following symlinks Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-04-23 03:14 +1000
      RE: Remove directory tree without following symlinks Albert-Jan Roskam <sjeik_appie@hotmail.com> - 2016-04-22 17:39 +0000
      Re: Remove directory tree without following symlinks eryk sun <eryksun@gmail.com> - 2016-04-22 13:28 -0500
      RE: Remove directory tree without following symlinks Albert-Jan Roskam <sjeik_appie@hotmail.com> - 2016-04-23 09:34 +0000
      Re: Remove directory tree without following symlinks eryk sun <eryksun@gmail.com> - 2016-04-23 15:22 -0500
      Re: Remove directory tree without following symlinks eryk sun <eryksun@gmail.com> - 2016-04-24 14:42 -0500
  Re: Remove directory tree without following symlinks Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2016-04-23 01:13 -0700
    Re: Remove directory tree without following symlinks Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-04-23 20:24 +1000
      Re: Remove directory tree without following symlinks Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2016-04-23 23:37 +1200
      Re: Remove directory tree without following symlinks Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> - 2016-04-23 17:04 -0400
  Re: Remove directory tree without following symlinks Nobody <nobody@nowhere.invalid> - 2016-04-23 17:29 +0100
    Re: Remove directory tree without following symlinks Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> - 2016-04-23 17:07 -0400

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