John Darrington wrote on 05-12-06 01:41:
Why not use the stat system call to find out what type of file
we're dealing with, and then remove or not remove accordingly ?
That might cause a suprise in some cases. It is better to have a
consitent behaviour than have different behaviours for different types
of files.
Why? Other core GNU commands modify their behaviour based upon the
file type. For example tar and ls treat their arguments differently
depending upon whether they are names of directories or names of
files.
Maybe that's justified by the fact that they're a tad less destructive?
bjd
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