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rm uses the unlink system call to "delete" a file. The unlink(2) manual page usually documents the behavior which Don described.

If you also wanted to watch for replacement, you could record the...

The file no longer has any links in the filesystem, but the file still exists until your application closes the file. (Note that exiting the process closes the file even if you don't explicitly call...

I am not sure if this is correct:
sed -n '/^\.\.\.\./!H; /^\.\.\.\./{x; /stopped/d; /date.*13\/12\/2012/d; p;}' example

Perhaps you mean this:
$ awk 'p{p=p RS $0} /\.\.\.\./ {if(p){ if(p!~s && p!~/stop/)print p; p=x}else {p=$0}}' s="13.12.2012" file
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It looks for 0 or more characters-that-are-not-a-double-quote in front of a double quote. The zero or more characters-that-are-not-a-double-quote that follow are in parentheses, so they are group 1....