The rm command removes links to file. What does this mean? How then is a file

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The rm command removes links to file. What does this mean?
How then is a file deleted from the
file system?

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The rm command removes links to file. What does this mean? How then is a file deleted from the fi..

Answer / usama el far

I think he is asking about this :

- when we remove a file what happens actually that it will
be removed from the inode table && its entery in the parent
directory will be removed too

here what happened that the file's data blocks were not
removed actually from the hard disk but there is no pointing
/ linking to it

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The rm command removes links to file. What does this mean? How then is a file deleted from the fi..

Answer / aseem

rm never delete the link. only file get removed from index.
so it will not come when you will use ls command

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The rm command removes links to file. What does this mean? How then is a file deleted from the fi..

Answer / chakri

if we do $rm filename, the file is is removed or
deleted.there is no utility to restore the file.

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The rm command removes links to file. What does this mean? How then is a file deleted from the fi..

Answer / hari

no.mean command is description for the unix commands
ex:man cat
rm filname

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The rm command removes links to file. What does this mean? How then is a file deleted from the fi..

Answer / balaji

actually, rm does not remove the link.
link can be deleted by using ulink.

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