On Sat, 23 Apr 2016 06:13 pm, Paul Rubin wrote: > Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> writes: >> I want to remove a directory, including all files and subdirectories >> under it, but without following symlinks. I want the symlinks to be >> deleted, not the files pointed to by those symlinks. > > rm -r shouldn't follow symlinks like you mention.
"rm -r" gives me a NameError when I run it in my Python script :-) But seriously, where is that documented? I've read the man page for rm, and it doesn't say anything about treatment of symlinks, nor is there an option to follow/not follow symlinks. So I never trust rm -r unless I know what I'm deleting. -- Steven -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
