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- RM
-
- Purpose
- remove files and directories
-
- Syntax
- rm [-fiv] [-] file...
- rm [-fiv] -r [-] file|dir...
-
- Comments
- Rm allows multiple files, and even whole directories, to be removed
- selectively.
-
- Options
- - interpret all following arguments as filenames (used to remove
- files with names that start with a '-').
- -f force; don't quit if errors are encountered in removing files,
- override any readonly attributes, and don't display any error
- messages.
- -i interactive; asks whether to remove each file or directory.
- -r recursively remove arguments which are directories; if not
- specified, arguments which are directories are not removed.
- Note that if you specify both -i and -r, and choose not to
- delete a file which is in a subdirectory, the subdirectory
- itself cannot be removed.
- -v verbose; display the name of each file or directory before
- removing it.