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RM Section: User Commands (1) Updated: August 1998 Index   NAME rm - remove files or directories   SYNOPSIS rm [options] file... POSIX options: [-fiRr] GNU options (shortest form): [-dfirvR] [--help] [--version] [--]   DESCRIPTION rm removes each given file. By default, it does not remove directories. But when the -r or -R option is given, the entire directory tree below the specified directory is removed (and there are no limitations on the depth of directory trees that can be removed by `rm -r'). It is an error when the last path component of file is either . or .. (so as to avoid unpleasant surprises with `rm -r .*' or so). If the -i option is given, or if a file is unwritable, standard input is a terminal, and the -f option is not given, rm prompts the user for whether to remove the file, writing a question to stderr and reading an answer from stdin. If the response is not affirmative, the file is skipped.   POSIX OPTIONS -f Do not prompt for confirmation. Do not write diagnostic messages. Do not produce an error return status if the only errors were nonexisting files. -i Prompt for confirmation. (In case both -f and -i are given, the last one given takes effect.) -r or -R Recursively remove directory trees.   SVID DETAILS The System V Interface Definition forbids removal of the last link to an executable binary file that is being executed.   GNU DETAILS The GNU implementation (in fileutils-3.16) is broken in the sense that there is an upper limit to the depth of hierarchies that can be removed. (If necessary, a utility `deltree' can be used to remove very deep trees.)   GNU OPTIONS -d, --directory Remove directories with instead of and don't require a directory to be empty before trying to unlink it. Only works if you have appropriate privileges. Because unlinking a directory causes any files in the deleted directory to become unreferenced, it is wise to the filesystem after doing this. -f, --force Ignore nonexistent files and never prompt the user. -i, --interactive Prompt whether to remove each file. If the response is not affirmative, the file is skipped. -r, -R, --recursive Remove the contents of directories recursively. -v, --verbose Print the name of each file before removing it.   GNU STANDARD OPTIONS --help Print a usage message on standard output and exit successfully. --version Print version information on standard output, then exit successfully. -- Terminate option list.   ENVIRONMENT The variables LANG, LC_ALL, LC_COLLATE, LC_CTYPE and LC_MESSAGES have the usual meaning.   CONFORMING TO POSIX 1003.2, except for the limitation on file hierarchy depth.   NOTES This page describes rm as found in the fileutils-3.16 package; other versions may differ slightly. Mail corrections and additions to aeb@cwi.nl and aw@mail1.bet1.puv.fi and ragnar@lightside.ddns.org . Report bugs in the program to fileutils-bugs@gnu.ai.mit.edu.   Index NAME SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION POSIX OPTIONS SVID DETAILS GNU DETAILS GNU OPTIONS GNU STANDARD OPTIONS ENVIRONMENT CONFORMING TO NOTES This document was created by using the manual pages. Time: 11:46:34 GMT, March 24, 2025

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