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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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