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1.1     ! root        1: .\" Copyright (c) 1980 Regents of the University of California.
        !             2: .\" All rights reserved.  The Berkeley software License Agreement
        !             3: .\" specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution.
        !             4: .\"
        !             5: .\"    @(#)rm.1        6.1 (Berkeley) 4/29/85
        !             6: .\"
        !             7: .TH RM 1 "April 29, 1985"
        !             8: .UC 4
        !             9: .SH NAME
        !            10: rm, rmdir  \- remove (unlink) files or directories
        !            11: .SH SYNOPSIS
        !            12: .B rm
        !            13: [
        !            14: .B \-f
        !            15: ] [
        !            16: .B \-r
        !            17: ] [
        !            18: .B \-i
        !            19: ] [
        !            20: .B \-
        !            21: ] file ...
        !            22: .PP
        !            23: .B rmdir
        !            24: dir ...
        !            25: .PP
        !            26: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !            27: .I Rm
        !            28: removes the entries for one or more files from a directory.
        !            29: If an entry was the last link to the file, the file is destroyed.
        !            30: Removal of a file requires write permission in its directory,
        !            31: but neither read nor write permission on the file itself.
        !            32: .PP
        !            33: If a file has no write permission and the standard input is a terminal,
        !            34: its permissions are printed and a line is read from the standard input.
        !            35: If that line begins with `y' the file is deleted, otherwise the file remains.
        !            36: No questions are asked and no errors are reported when the
        !            37: .B \-f
        !            38: (force) option is given.
        !            39: .PP
        !            40: If a designated file is a directory,
        !            41: an error comment is printed unless the optional argument
        !            42: .B \-r
        !            43: has been used.  In that case,
        !            44: .I rm
        !            45: recursively deletes the entire contents of the specified directory,
        !            46: and the directory itself.
        !            47: .PP
        !            48: If the
        !            49: .B \-i
        !            50: (interactive) option is in effect,
        !            51: .I rm
        !            52: asks whether to delete each file, and, under
        !            53: .BR \-r ,
        !            54: whether to examine each directory.
        !            55: .PP
        !            56: The null option
        !            57: .B \-
        !            58: indicates that all the arguments following it are to be treated as
        !            59: file names.  This allows the specification of file names starting with
        !            60: a minus.
        !            61: .PP
        !            62: .I Rmdir
        !            63: removes entries for the named directories, which must be empty.
        !            64: .SH "SEE ALSO"
        !            65: rm(1), unlink(2), rmdir(2)

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