Remove directory tree without following symlinks

[Gregory Ewing]

Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> But seriously, where is that documented? I've read the man page for rm, and
> it doesn't say anything about treatment of symlinks

The Linux man page seems to be a bit deficient on this.
The BSD version contains this sentence:

      The rm utility removes symbolic links, not the files referenced by the
      links.

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Greg