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+.\" Copyright (c) 1983 Regents of the University of California.
+.\" All rights reserved.  The Berkeley software License Agreement
+.\" specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution.
+.\"
+.\"    @(#)rmdir.1     5.1 (Berkeley) %G%
+.\"
+.TH RMDIR 1 "1 April 1981"
+.UC 5
+.SH NAME
+rmdir, rm  \- remove (unlink) directories or files
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.B rmdir
+dir ...
+.PP
+.B rm
+[
+.B \-f
+] [
+.B \-r
+] [
+.B \-i
+] [
+.B \-
+] file ...
+.PP
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+.PP
+.I Rmdir
+removes entries for the named directories, which must be empty.
+.PP
+.I 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.
+.PP
+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 and no errors are reported when the
+.B \-f
+(force) option is given.
+.PP
+If a designated file is a directory,
+an error comment is printed unless the optional argument
+.B \-r
+has been used.  In that case,
+.I rm
+recursively deletes the entire contents of the specified directory,
+and the directory itself.
+.PP
+If the
+.B \-i
+(interactive) option is in effect,
+.I rm
+asks whether to delete each file, and, under
+.BR \-r ,
+whether to examine each directory.
+.PP
+The null option
+.B \-
+indicates that all the arguments following it are to be treated as
+file names.  This allows the specification of file names starting with
+a minus.
+.SH "SEE ALSO"
+rm(1), unlink(2), rmdir(2)