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PROGRAM:

NAME

rm - remove files or directories

SYNOPSIS

rm [OPTION]... [FILE]...

DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents the GNU version of rm. rm removes each specified file. By
default, it does not remove directories.

If the -I or --interactive=once option is given, and there are more than three files or
the -r, -R, or --recursive are given, then rm prompts the user for whether to proceed with
the entire operation. If the response is not affirmative, the entire command is aborted.

Otherwise, if a file is unwritable, standard input is a terminal, and the -f or --force
option is not given, or the -i or --interactive=always option is given, rm prompts the
user for whether to remove the file. If the response is not affirmative, the file is
skipped.

OPTIONS

Remove (unlink) the FILE(s).

-f, --force
ignore nonexistent files and arguments, never prompt

-i prompt before every removal

-I prompt once before removing more than three files, or when removing recursively;
less intrusive than -i, while still giving protection against most mistakes

--interactive[=WHEN]
prompt according to WHEN: never, once (-I), or always (-i); without WHEN, prompt
always

--one-file-system
when removing a hierarchy recursively, skip any directory that is on a file system
different from that of the corresponding command line argument

--no-preserve-root
do not treat '/' specially

--preserve-root
do not remove '/' (default)

-r, -R, --recursive
remove directories and their contents recursively

-d, --dir
remove empty directories

-v, --verbose
explain what is being done

--help display this help and exit

--version
output version information and exit

By default, rm does not remove directories. Use the --recursive (-r or -R) option to
remove each listed directory, too, along with all of its contents.

To remove a file whose name starts with a '-', for example '-foo', use one of these
commands:

rm -- -foo

rm ./-foo

Note that if you use rm to remove a file, it might be possible to recover some of its
contents, given sufficient expertise and/or time. For greater assurance that the contents
are truly unrecoverable, consider using shred.

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