If I have symbolic links in some subtree of my directories and decide to recursively removed a driectory and its contents, will that remove items symbolically linked in the tree?
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From the man file
$ man rm
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The rm utility removes symbolic links, not the files referenced by the links.
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Version OS X 10.8.2
Look this SuperUser question.
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In short, rm and rm -r unlink items from the file system. Unlinking a symbolic link just gets rid of the link. In such a circumstance, the link's target would still point at the file, so the file's reference count remains nonzero. It is not deleted.
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