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Provide explicit info on SymLink handling
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Description
### Type of issue
Missing information
### Description
Provide explicit behavior details when the path is a symbolic link to a file. Does the target get deleted, or only the link itself?
### Page URL
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.io.file.delete?view=net-10.0#remarks
### Content source URL
https://github.com/dotnet/dotnet-api-docs/blob/main/xml/System.IO/File.xml
### Document Version Independent Id
d20c05c2-d454-d4d6-8693-a023786e18f6
### Platform Id
97a38b7a-7440-4368-7651-cb715b00e0fb
### Article author
@dotnet-bot
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