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1.1     ! root        1: .TH RM 1
        !             2: .CT 1 dirs files
        !             3: .SH NAME
        !             4: rm \- remove (unlink) files
        !             5: .SH SYNOPSIS
        !             6: .B rm
        !             7: [
        !             8: .B -fri
        !             9: ]
        !            10: .I file ...
        !            11: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !            12: .I Rm
        !            13: removes directory entries.
        !            14: If an entry was the last link to a file, the file
        !            15: is destroyed.
        !            16: If an entry is a directory it is removed only if empty.
        !            17: Removal of a file requires write permission in its directory,
        !            18: but neither read nor write permission on the file itself.
        !            19: .PP
        !            20: If a file lacks write permission
        !            21: and the the standard input is a terminal,
        !            22: a query is written to the standard output and
        !            23: a line is read from the standard input.
        !            24: If that line begins with 
        !            25: .L y
        !            26: the file is deleted,
        !            27: otherwise the file remains.
        !            28: The options are
        !            29: .TP
        !            30: .B -f
        !            31: (force)
        !            32: Ask no questions about unwritable files and report no errors.
        !            33: .TP
        !            34: .B -r
        !            35: Recursively delete the
        !            36: entire contents of a directory
        !            37: and the directory itself.
        !            38: .TP
        !            39: .B -i
        !            40: (interactive) 
        !            41: Ask whether to delete each file,
        !            42: and, under
        !            43: .BR -r ,
        !            44: whether to examine each directory.
        !            45: If the first character of the response is
        !            46: .LR y ,
        !            47: the answer is yes;
        !            48: otherwise the answer is no.
        !            49: .SH "SEE ALSO"
        !            50: .IR unlink (2)
        !            51: .SH DIAGNOSTICS
        !            52: It is forbidden to remove the file
        !            53: .L ..
        !            54: merely to avoid the
        !            55: antisocial consequences of inadvertently doing something like
        !            56: .LR "rm -r .*" .

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