"overwrite" option deletes previous files instead of unlinking

[EvHaus]

When using the options.overwrite = true option I'm seeing a very undesirable behavior.

Instead of unlinking the old link before overwriting it, it actually deletes the files for the old link. This is not the expected behavior.

Can you please change the command to perform an "unlink" command instead of an "rm" command?

[schnittstabil]

Mhm, grunt-contrib-symlink calls grunt.file.delete, which in turn calls rimraf.sync, which in turn calls fs.unlinkSync.

Sorry, but therefore I don't understand what you expect. How does unlink differ from rm, respectively about what undesirable behavior do you think of?

[EvHaus]

unlink removes the symlink to the original files, where as rm actually removes the original files themselves.

[schnittstabil]

I see. Unlinking the link, instead of unlinking the linked.
Sorry, but I can't reproduce that behaviour you described, see my simple test.
Maybe it is already solved?

[CTaylor1118]

I am seeing this behavior when I have sources set like ['**/*'] and overwrite set to true.