TL;DR: rm calls the unlink syscall and the author wasted a lot of time to find this out and even more time to describe this.
Everyone starts somewhere and learns as they go. You did too.
This is like those sites where you just need that recipe for the Bloomin' Onion sauce because you forgot one ingredient and you get the life story of the author:
"We were riding on horseback around Tuscany when my riding boot got scuffed by the buckle, so we stopped by a local cobbler to repair it while we listned to the church bells of a nearby..."
3 screens later...
"There was an Outback Express at the airport and I asked the waiter..."
"Horseradish" Oh yeah!
Thanks for the short version.
wouldn't it have been easier to just read the source code? (not that GNU's code is easy to read, but still)
Nerd ;)
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