Re: Scripting Additions: Embracing the Horror of Unix
Re: Scripting Additions: Embracing the Horror of Unix
- Subject: Re: Scripting Additions: Embracing the Horror of Unix
- From: Christopher Nebel <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 15:08:12 -0800
On Friday, February 1, 2002, at 02:45 PM, Michael Sullivan wrote:
Steve suggested that the recursive form could be dangerous if you have
links. ... I looked and the SCO server we run here doesn't mention this
issue at all in the rm man page, so clearly there's no switch for it on
that, and it's not clear whether it's an issue there, which still
doesn't answer the question for OS X.
% man rm
...
The rm utility removes symbolic links, not the files referenced by
the
links.
--Chris Nebel
AppleScript Engineering