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1 | .\" Copyright (c) 1983 Regents of the University of California. |
2 | .\" All rights reserved. The Berkeley software License Agreement | |
3 | .\" specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution. | |
4 | .\" | |
35705f59 | 5 | .\" @(#)rmdir.1 6.1 (Berkeley) %G% |
78652bce | 6 | .\" |
35705f59 | 7 | .TH RMDIR 1 "" |
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8 | .UC 5 |
9 | .SH NAME | |
10 | rmdir, rm \- remove (unlink) directories or files | |
11 | .SH SYNOPSIS | |
12 | .B rmdir | |
13 | dir ... | |
14 | .PP | |
15 | .B rm | |
16 | [ | |
17 | .B \-f | |
18 | ] [ | |
19 | .B \-r | |
20 | ] [ | |
21 | .B \-i | |
22 | ] [ | |
23 | .B \- | |
24 | ] file ... | |
25 | .PP | |
26 | .SH DESCRIPTION | |
27 | .PP | |
28 | .I Rmdir | |
29 | removes entries for the named directories, which must be empty. | |
30 | .PP | |
31 | .I Rm | |
32 | removes the entries for one or more files from a directory. | |
33 | If an entry was the last link to the file, the file is destroyed. | |
34 | Removal of a file requires write permission in its directory, | |
35 | but neither read nor write permission on the file itself. | |
36 | .PP | |
37 | If a file has no write permission and the standard input is a terminal, | |
38 | its permissions are printed and a line is read from the standard input. | |
39 | If that line begins with `y' the file is deleted, otherwise the file remains. | |
40 | No questions are asked and no errors are reported when the | |
41 | .B \-f | |
42 | (force) option is given. | |
43 | .PP | |
44 | If a designated file is a directory, | |
45 | an error comment is printed unless the optional argument | |
46 | .B \-r | |
47 | has been used. In that case, | |
48 | .I rm | |
49 | recursively deletes the entire contents of the specified directory, | |
50 | and the directory itself. | |
51 | .PP | |
52 | If the | |
53 | .B \-i | |
54 | (interactive) option is in effect, | |
55 | .I rm | |
56 | asks whether to delete each file, and, under | |
57 | .BR \-r , | |
58 | whether to examine each directory. | |
59 | .PP | |
60 | The null option | |
61 | .B \- | |
62 | indicates that all the arguments following it are to be treated as | |
63 | file names. This allows the specification of file names starting with | |
64 | a minus. | |
65 | .SH "SEE ALSO" | |
66 | rm(1), unlink(2), rmdir(2) |