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diff --git a/man/rm.1 b/man/rm.1 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0f7e7f2 --- /dev/null +++ b/man/rm.1 @@ -0,0 +1,108 @@ +.\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE! It was generated by help2man 1.47.3. +.TH RM "1" "March 2020" "GNU coreutils 8.32" "User Commands" +.SH NAME +rm \- remove files or directories +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B rm +[\fI\,OPTION\/\fR]... [\fI\,FILE\/\fR]... +.SH DESCRIPTION +This manual page +documents the GNU version of +.BR rm . +.B rm +removes each specified file. By default, it does not remove +directories. +.P +If the \fI\-I\fR or \fI\-\-interactive=once\fR option is given, +and there are more than three files or the \fI\-r\fR, \fI\-R\fR, +or \fI\-\-recursive\fR are given, then +.B rm +prompts the user for whether to proceed with the entire operation. If +the response is not affirmative, the entire command is aborted. +.P +Otherwise, if a file is unwritable, standard input is a terminal, and +the \fI\-f\fR or \fI\-\-force\fR option is not given, or the +\fI\-i\fR or \fI\-\-interactive=always\fR option is given, +.B rm +prompts the user for whether to remove the file. If the response is +not affirmative, the file is skipped. +.SH OPTIONS +.PP +Remove (unlink) the FILE(s). +.TP +\fB\-f\fR, \fB\-\-force\fR +ignore nonexistent files and arguments, never prompt +.TP +\fB\-i\fR +prompt before every removal +.TP +\fB\-I\fR +prompt once before removing more than three files, or +when removing recursively; less intrusive than \fB\-i\fR, +while still giving protection against most mistakes +.TP +\fB\-\-interactive\fR[=\fI\,WHEN\/\fR] +prompt according to WHEN: never, once (\fB\-I\fR), or +always (\fB\-i\fR); without WHEN, prompt always +.TP +\fB\-\-one\-file\-system\fR +when removing a hierarchy recursively, skip any +directory that is on a file system different from +that of the corresponding command line argument +.TP +\fB\-\-no\-preserve\-root\fR +do not treat '/' specially +.TP +\fB\-\-preserve\-root\fR[=\fI\,all\/\fR] +do not remove '/' (default); +with 'all', reject any command line argument +on a separate device from its parent +.TP +\fB\-r\fR, \fB\-R\fR, \fB\-\-recursive\fR +remove directories and their contents recursively +.TP +\fB\-d\fR, \fB\-\-dir\fR +remove empty directories +.TP +\fB\-v\fR, \fB\-\-verbose\fR +explain what is being done +.TP +\fB\-\-help\fR +display this help and exit +.TP +\fB\-\-version\fR +output version information and exit +.PP +By default, rm does not remove directories. Use the \fB\-\-recursive\fR (\fB\-r\fR or \fB\-R\fR) +option to remove each listed directory, too, along with all of its contents. +.PP +To remove a file whose name starts with a '\-', for example '\-foo', +use one of these commands: +.IP +rm \fB\-\-\fR \fB\-foo\fR +.IP +rm ./\-foo +.PP +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. +.SH AUTHOR +Written by Paul Rubin, David MacKenzie, Richard M. Stallman, +and Jim Meyering. +.SH "REPORTING BUGS" +GNU coreutils online help: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> +.br +Report any translation bugs to <https://translationproject.org/team/> +.SH COPYRIGHT +Copyright \(co 2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. +.br +This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. +There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. +.SH "SEE ALSO" +unlink(1), unlink(2), chattr(1), shred(1) +.PP +.br +Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/rm> +.br +or available locally via: info \(aq(coreutils) rm invocation\(aq |