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- rm - remove files
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- rrmm [-dfirvR] [--directory] [--force] [--interactive]
- [--recursive] [--help] [--version] [--verbose] path...
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- DDEESSCCRRIIPPTTIIOONN
- This manual page documents the GNU version of rrmm. rrmm
- 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, rrmm 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 rrmm, 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 either
- rm -- -f
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- rm ./-f
- The Unix rrmm program's use of a single `-' for this purpose
- predates the development of the getopt standard syntax.
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- OOPPTTIIOONNSS
- _-_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. Because unlinking a directory causes
- any files in the deleted directory to become unref-
- erenced, it is wise to ffsscckk the filesystem after
- doing this.
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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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- _-_-_h_e_l_p Print a usage message and exit with a non-zero sta-
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