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- NAME
- rm - remove files
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- SYNOPSIS
- rm [-dfirvR] [+directory] [+force] [+interactive] [+recur-
- sive] [+verbose] path...
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- DESCRIPTION
- This manual page documents the GNU version of rm. rm
- removes each given file. By default, it does not remove
- directories.
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- If a file is unwritable, the standard input is a tty, and
- the -_✓f or +_✓f_✓o_✓r_✓c_✓e option is not given, rm prompts the user
- for whether to remove the file. If the response does not
- begin with `y' or `Y', the file is skipped.
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- GNU rm, like every program that uses the getopt function to
- parse its arguments, lets you use the -- option to indicate
- that all following arguments are non-options. To remove a
- file called `-f' in the current directory, you could type
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- rm -- -f
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- rm ./-f
- The Unix rm program's use of a single `-' for this purpose
- predates the development of the getopt standard syntax.
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- OPTIONS
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- -_✓d, +_✓d_✓i_✓r_✓e_✓c_✓t_✓o_✓r_✓y
- Remove directories with `unlink' instead of `rmdir',
- and don't require a directory to be empty before trying
- to unlink it. Only works for the super-user.
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- -_✓f, +_✓f_✓o_✓r_✓c_✓e
- Ignore nonexistent files and never prompt the user.
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- -_✓i, +_✓i_✓n_✓t_✓e_✓r_✓a_✓c_✓t_✓i_✓v_✓e
- Prompt whether to remove each file. If the response
- does not begin with `y' or `Y', the file is skipped.
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- -_✓r, -_✓R, +_✓r_✓e_✓c_✓u_✓r_✓s_✓i_✓v_✓e
- Remove the contents of directories recursively.
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- -_✓v, +_✓v_✓e_✓r_✓b_✓o_✓s_✓e
- Print the name of each file before removing it.
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