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1.1       root        1: .TH RM 1 "1 April 1981"
                      2: .UC 4
                      3: .SH NAME
                      4: rm, rmdir  \- remove (unlink) files or directories
                      5: .SH SYNOPSIS
                      6: .B rm
                      7: [
                      8: .B \-f
                      9: ] [
                     10: .B \-r
                     11: ] [
                     12: .B \-i
                     13: ] [
                     14: .B \-
                     15: ] file ...
                     16: .PP
                     17: .B rmdir
                     18: dir ...
                     19: .PP
                     20: .SH DESCRIPTION
                     21: .I Rm
                     22: removes the entries for one or more files from a directory.
                     23: If an entry was the last link to the file, the file is destroyed.
                     24: Removal of a file requires write permission in its directory,
                     25: but neither read nor write permission on the file itself.
                     26: .PP
                     27: If a file has no write permission and the standard input is a terminal,
                     28: its permissions are printed and a line is read from the standard input.
                     29: If that line begins with `y' the file is deleted, otherwise the file remains.
                     30: No questions are asked and no errors are reported when the
                     31: .B \-f
                     32: (force) option is given.
                     33: .PP
                     34: If a designated file is a directory,
                     35: an error comment is printed unless the optional argument
                     36: .B \-r
                     37: has been used.  In that case,
                     38: .I rm
                     39: recursively deletes the entire contents of the specified directory,
                     40: and the directory itself.
                     41: .PP
                     42: If the
                     43: .B \-i
                     44: (interactive) option is in effect,
                     45: .I rm
                     46: asks whether to delete each file, and, under
                     47: .BR \-r ,
                     48: whether to examine each directory.
                     49: .PP
                     50: The null option
                     51: .B \-
                     52: indicates that all the arguments following it are to be treated as
                     53: file names.  This allows the specification of file names starting with
                     54: a minus.
                     55: .PP
                     56: .I Rmdir
                     57: removes entries for the named directories, which must be empty.
                     58: .SH "SEE ALSO"
                     59: rm(1), unlink(2), rmdir(2)

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