Unraveling rm: what happens when you run it?

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TL;DR: rm calls the unlink syscall and the author wasted a lot of time to find this out and even more time to describe this.

Everyone starts somewhere and learns as they go. You did too.

He walked out if the womb using a brain implant running arch Linux

This is like those sites where you just need that recipe for the Bloomin' Onion sauce because you forgot one ingredient and you get the life story of the author:

"We were riding on horseback around Tuscany when my riding boot got scuffed by the buckle, so we stopped by a local cobbler to repair it while we listned to the church bells of a nearby..."

3 screens later...

"There was an Outback Express at the airport and I asked the waiter..."

"Horseradish" Oh yeah!