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1 | .TH RM 1 |
2 | .SH NAME | |
3 | rm, rmdir \- remove (unlink) files | |
4 | .SH SYNOPSIS | |
5 | .B rm | |
6 | [ | |
7 | .B \-fri | |
8 | ] file ... | |
9 | .PP | |
10 | .B rmdir | |
11 | dir ... | |
12 | .PP | |
13 | .SH DESCRIPTION | |
14 | .I Rm | |
15 | removes the entries for one or more | |
16 | files | |
17 | from a directory. | |
18 | If an entry was the last link to the file, the file | |
19 | is destroyed. | |
20 | Removal of a file requires write permission in its directory, | |
21 | but neither read nor write permission on the file itself. | |
22 | .PP | |
23 | If a file has no write permission | |
24 | and the standard input is a terminal, | |
25 | its permissions are printed and a line is read from | |
26 | the standard input. | |
27 | If that line begins with `y' the file is deleted, | |
28 | otherwise the file remains. | |
29 | No questions are asked | |
30 | when the | |
31 | .B \-f | |
32 | (force) option is given. | |
33 | .PP | |
34 | If a designated file is a directory, | |
35 | an error comment is printed unless the optional | |
36 | argument | |
37 | .B \-r | |
38 | has been used. | |
39 | In that case, | |
40 | .I rm | |
41 | recursively deletes the | |
42 | entire contents of the specified directory, | |
43 | and the directory itself. | |
44 | .PP | |
45 | If the | |
46 | .B \-i | |
47 | (interactive) option is in effect, | |
48 | .I rm | |
49 | asks whether to delete each file, | |
50 | and, under | |
51 | .BR \-r , | |
52 | whether to examine each directory. | |
53 | .PP | |
54 | .I Rmdir | |
55 | removes entries for the named directories, | |
56 | which must be empty. | |
57 | .SH "SEE ALSO" | |
58 | unlink(2) | |
59 | .SH DIAGNOSTICS | |
60 | Generally self-explanatory. | |
61 | It is forbidden to remove the file `..' merely to avoid the | |
62 | antisocial consequences of inadvertently doing something like | |
63 | `rm \-r .*'. |