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- RMDIR User Commands RMDIR
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- NNAAMMEE
- rmdir, rm - remove (unlink) directories or files
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- SSYYNNOOPPSSIISS
- rrmmddiirr dir ...
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- rrmm [ --ff ] [ --rr ] [ --ii ] [ -- ] file ...
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- DDEESSCCRRIIPPTTIIOONN
- _R_m_d_i_r removes entries for the named directories, which must
- be empty.
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- _R_m removes the entries for one or more files from a direc-
- tory. 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.
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- 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 --ff (force)
- option is given.
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- If a designated file is a directory, an error comment is
- printed unless the optional argument --rr has been used. In
- that case, _r_m recursively deletes the entire contents of the
- specified directory, and the directory itself.
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- If the --ii (interactive) option is in effect, _r_m asks whether
- to delete each file, and, under --rr, whether to examine each
- directory.
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- The null option -- indicates that all the arguments following
- it are to be treated as file names. This allows the specif-
- ication of file names starting with a minus.
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- SSEEEE AALLSSOO
- rm(1), unlink(2), rmdir(2)
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