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- RM: All your file removal needs in this tiny program.
-
- RM is not yet another 'rm' program; you may have many of those UN*X like
- programs, I had many too, but I decided to write this one because I was
- looking for some features I could not find in similar utilities. I
- recommend the usage of my program because of its following characteristics:
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- FREE I do not expect any donations whatsoever for this version.
- Redistribution is permitted as long as no money is collected for
- the program.
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- SMALL ~5K file size. No hacker's disk is complete without it.
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- TERSE No copyright message is displayed in normal run. No \r\n are
- printed in the end to save another screen line. Also, has a
- silent mode useful for quiet wiping out of full disks.
-
- HELP Help message will be displayed when the program is executed with
- no parameters.
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- SAFE Will confirm each file removal, and each write-protection
- override. 'rm' will even clear the keyboard buffer before
- each reading the user confirmation to erasing.
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- POWERFUL Can recurse over sub-dirextories, erase read only files, match
- hidden and system files. User confirmation can be turned off.
-
-
-
- Nobody is perfect, and 'rm' is no exception: Currently 'rm' is missing the
- following features:
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- 1) Cloning - make command line to be defaults of RM.COM
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- 2) Unerase information: I would like 'rm' to create a deleted
- directory entry, for every deleted file fragment. This could
- benefit utilities like Norton's QU, that will be able to
- recover deleted fragmented files.
-
- 3) User comments...
-
- I cannot promise to add those features in the near future, but I
- do promise to send source code to any interested user.
-
- RM: File Removal Utility. Version 1.11, Dec 24 1989
- Copyright (c) 1989-92 by Yossi Gil, P.O.Box 3148, Jerusalem, ISRAEL.
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- Usage: RM [flags] file[s] [[flags] files ...]
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- Will remove the given files (wild cards too). Flags are one or more flag
- characters preceded by "-", and optionally followed by "+" for turning
- flag on (default), or "-" for turning it off.
-
- Flags are: (*= default setting)
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- -H+ Hidden files match in wild cards
- -S+ System files match in wild cards
- -W+ Remove write protected files too
- -i+ * Prompt before removing file
- -I+ * Prompt before overriding write protect
- -n Do nothing, just print file names
- -R Recursively scan subdirectories
- -B Batch mode. Echo \r\n after terminating
- -? or -h Print this message
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- All flags apply to wildcards that follow them in the argument list.
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