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1.1       root        1: .\" Copyright (c) 1983 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: .\"    @(#)rmdir.1     6.1 (Berkeley) 4/29/85
                      6: .\"
                      7: .TH RMDIR 1 "April 29, 1985"
                      8: .UC 5
                      9: .SH NAME
                     10: rmdir, rm  \- remove (unlink) directories or files
                     11: .SH SYNOPSIS
                     12: .B rmdir
                     13: dir ...
                     14: .PP
                     15: .B rm
                     16: [
                     17: .B \-f
                     18: ] [
                     19: .B \-r
                     20: ] [
                     21: .B \-i
                     22: ] [
                     23: .B \-
                     24: ] file ...
                     25: .PP
                     26: .SH DESCRIPTION
                     27: .PP
                     28: .I Rmdir
                     29: removes entries for the named directories, which must be empty.
                     30: .PP
                     31: .I Rm
                     32: removes the entries for one or more files from a directory.
                     33: If an entry was the last link to the file, the file is destroyed.
                     34: Removal of a file requires write permission in its directory,
                     35: but neither read nor write permission on the file itself.
                     36: .PP
                     37: If a file has no write permission and the standard input is a terminal,
                     38: its permissions are printed and a line is read from the standard input.
                     39: If that line begins with `y' the file is deleted, otherwise the file remains.
                     40: No questions are asked and no errors are reported when the
                     41: .B \-f
                     42: (force) option is given.
                     43: .PP
                     44: If a designated file is a directory,
                     45: an error comment is printed unless the optional argument
                     46: .B \-r
                     47: has been used.  In that case,
                     48: .I rm
                     49: recursively deletes the entire contents of the specified directory,
                     50: and the directory itself.
                     51: .PP
                     52: If the
                     53: .B \-i
                     54: (interactive) option is in effect,
                     55: .I rm
                     56: asks whether to delete each file, and, under
                     57: .BR \-r ,
                     58: whether to examine each directory.
                     59: .PP
                     60: The null option
                     61: .B \-
                     62: indicates that all the arguments following it are to be treated as
                     63: file names.  This allows the specification of file names starting with
                     64: a minus.
                     65: .SH "SEE ALSO"
                     66: rm(1), unlink(2), rmdir(2)

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