NAME
rm - remove (unlink) files
SYNOPSIS
rm [ -f ] [ -r ] name ...
DESCRIPTION
Rm removes the entries for one or more files from a direc-
tory. If an entry was the last link to the file, the file
is destroyed. Removal of a file requires write permission
in its directory, but neither read nor write permission on
the file itself.
If a file has no write permission, rm prints the file name
and its mode, then reads a line from the standard input. If
the line begins with y, the file is removed, otherwise it is
not. The question is not asked if option -f was given or if
the standard input is not a typewriter.
If a designated file is a directory, an error comment is
printed unless the optional argument -r has been used. In
that case, rm recursively deletes the entire contents of the
specified directory. To remove directories per se see
rmdir(I).
FILES
/etc/glob to implement the -r flag
SEE ALSO
rmdir (I)
BUGS
When rm removes the contents of a directory under the -r
flag, full pathnames are not printed in diagnostics.
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