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slightly improved formatting
Mokubai
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Be very careful.

If you have a symbolic link that is a directory (made with mklink /d) then using del will delete all of the files in the target directory (the directory that the link points to), rather than just the link.

rmdir on the other hand will only delete the directory link, not what the link points to.

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