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Thanks for the prompt reply and clarification.</div>
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Came across this afterwards:</div>
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<i>lfs find + unlink</i> is the way to go then.</div>
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thanks</div>
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<b>From: </b>Andreas Dilger <adilger@ddn.com><br>
<b>Date: </b>Saturday, 27 September 2025 at 00:42<br>
<b>To: </b>David Simpson - Staff in University IT, Research Technologies / Staff Technoleg Gwybodaeth, Technolegau Ymchwil <SimpsonD4@cardiff.ac.uk><br>
<b>Cc: </b>lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org <lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [lustre-discuss] munlink<br>
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<b>External email to Cardiff University - </b>Take care when replying/opening attachments or links.</div>
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<div class="ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message skipProofing">Modern Linux distros have "unlink", which is almost the same as munlink except only accepts a single filename as an argument, while munlink can handle multiple filenames at once, but this can be
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<div class="ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message skipProofing">On Sep 25, 2025, at 06:51, David Simpson - Staff in University IT, Research Technologies / Staff Technoleg Gwybodaeth, Technolegau Ymchwil via lustre-discuss <lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org> wrote:</div>
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We don’t appear to have munlink installed on any of our servers or clients on a system we are going to tidy a bit.</div>
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Is there any concern about installing it from the below - on a client/utility server? (I’m assuming not, but would be good to have affirmation)</div>
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In general, I can’t find much information on munlink. I assume it’s modified unlink.</div>
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Name : lustre-client-tests</div>
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Arch : x86_64</div>
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Version : 2.12.7</div>
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Release : 1.el7</div>
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The utility-server-client in question is on lfs 2.12.7. Infrastructure servers are also on this version.</div>
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We are planning to get off this system soon, however we are considering using munlink instead of rm to do some tidying.</div>
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regards</div>
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<div style="margin: 0cm; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 10pt;">ARCCA, Redwood Building,</div>
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