RM
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NAME
rm, rmdir - remove (unlink) files
SYNOPSIS
rm
[
-fri
] file ...
rmdir
dir ...
DESCRIPTION
Rm
removes the entries for one or more
files
from a directory.
If an entry was the last link to the file, the file
is destroyed.
Removal of a file requires write permission in its directory,
but neither read nor write permission on the file itself.
If a file has no write permission
and the standard input is a terminal,
its permissions are printed and a line is read from
the standard input.
If that line begins with `y' the file is deleted,
otherwise the file remains.
No questions are asked
when the
-f
(force) option is given.
If a designated file is a directory,
an error comment is printed unless the optional
argument
-r
has been used.
In that case,
rm
recursively deletes the
entire contents of the specified directory,
and the directory itself.
If the
-i
(interactive) option is in effect,
rm
asks whether to delete each file,
and, under
-r,
whether to examine each directory.
Rmdir
removes entries for the named directories,
which must be empty.
SEE ALSO
unlink(2)
DIAGNOSTICS
Generally self-explanatory.
It is forbidden to remove the file `..' merely to avoid the
antisocial consequences of inadvertently doing something like
`rm -r .*'.
Index
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