From: Steven Baltakatei Sandoval <baltakatei@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2023 18:54:16 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: doc(user/rmsym.org):Describe rmsym
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+* rmsym - Symlink deleter
+#+TITLE: rmsym - Symlink deleter
+#+AUTHOR: Steven Baltakatei Sandoval
+#+DATE:2023-02-20
+#+EMAIL:baltakatei@gmail.com
+#+LANGUAGE: en
+#+OPTIONS: toc:nil
+
+Created by [[https://baltakatei.com][Steven Baltakatei Sandoval]] on
+2023-02-20T18:43+00
+under a [[https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/][CC BY-SA 4.0]] (🅭🅯🄎4.0) license and last updated on
+2023-02-20T18:43+00
+
+** Summary
+~rmsym~ is a Bash script which deletes symbolic links specified by
+positional arguments.
+
+** Versions
+| Version | Description                                                    |
+|---------+----------------------------------------------------------------|
+|   0.0.1 | Initial version. Does not accept or pass on arguments to ~rm~. |
+|         |                                                                |
+
+** Background
+I needed a script that would let me quickly delete only symlinks if I
+were to provide it with a mix of paths of files, directories, or
+symlinks; specifically, I want to be able to create music playlists
+that any music player can parse; most music players can recursively
+scan directories and a directory tree of symlinks would reduce the
+need to maintain multiple copies of music files on the same file
+system. However, in order to assure myself that when I prune symlinks
+that I don't delete actual files targeted by the symlinks, I need a
+program that will only delete symlinks.
+
+Bash supports testing whether a path is a symlink or not via the ~-h~
+test. For example, here is a simple Bash script that will report
+whether a symlink is present at ~$HOME/foo.txt~ or not.
+
+#+begin_example
+#!/bin/bash
+path_myfile="$HOME/foo.txt";
+if [[ -h "$path_myfile" ]]; then
+  echo "STATUS:Is a symlink:$path_myfile";
+else
+  echo "STATUS:Is not a symlink:$path_myfile";
+fi;
+#+end_example
+
+** Reference
+- "Bash Reference Manual", Section: "[[https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html#Bash-Conditional-Expressions][6.4 Bash Conditional Expressions]]". gnu.org.