1.\" Copyright (c) 1990 The Regents of the University of California. 2.\" All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by 5.\" the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. 6.\" 7.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 8.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 9.\" are met: 10.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 11.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 12.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 13.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 14.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 15.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software 16.\" must display the following acknowledgement: 17.\" This product includes software developed by the University of 18.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors. 19.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 20.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 21.\" without specific prior written permission. 22.\" 23.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 24.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 25.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 26.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 27.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 28.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 29.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 30.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 31.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 32.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 33.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 34.\" 35.\" @(#)rm.1 6.9 (Berkeley) 7/27/91 36.\" 37.Dd July 27, 1991 38.Dt RM 1 39.Os 40.Sh NAME 41.Nm rm 42.Nd Remove directory entries. 43.Sh SYNOPSIS 44.Nm rm 45.Op Fl f | Fl i 46.Op Fl dRr 47.Ar file ... 48.Sh DESCRIPTION 49The 50.Nm rm 51utility attempts to remove the non-directory type files specified on the 52command line. 53If the permissions of the file do not permit writing, and the standard 54input device is a terminal, the user is prompted (on the standard error 55output) for confirmation. 56.Pp 57The options are as follows: 58.Bl -tag -width flag 59.It Fl d 60Attempt to remove directories as well as other types of files. 61.It Fl f 62Attempt to remove the files without prompting for confirmation, 63regardless of the file's permissions. 64If the file does not exist, do not display a diagnostic message or modify 65the exit status to reflect an error. 66The 67.Fl f 68option overrides any previous 69.Fl i 70options. 71.It Fl i 72Request confirmation before attempting to remove each file, regardless of 73the file's permissions, or whether or not the standard input device is a 74terminal. 75The 76.Fl i 77option overrides any previous 78.Fl f 79options. 80.It Fl R 81Attempt to remove the file hierarchy rooted in each file argument. 82The 83.Fl R 84option implies the 85.Fl d 86option. 87If the 88.Fl i 89option is specified, the user is prompted for confirmation before 90each directory's contents are processed (as well as before the attempt 91is made to remove the directory). 92If the user does not respond affirmatively, the file hierarchy rooted in 93that directory is skipped. 94.Pp 95.It Fl r 96Equivalent to 97.Fl R . 98.El 99.Pp 100The 101.Nm rm 102utility removes symbolic links, not the files referenced by the links. 103.Pp 104It is an error to attempt to remove the files ``.'' and ``..''. 105.Pp 106The 107.Nm rm 108utility exits 0 if all of the named files or file hierarchies were removed, 109or if the 110.Fl f 111option was specified and all of the existing files or file hierarchies were 112removed. 113If an error occurs, 114.Nm rm 115exits with a value >0. 116.Sh SEE ALSO 117.Xr rmdir 1 , 118.Xr unlink 2 , 119.Xr fts 3 120.Sh COMPATIBILITY 121The 122.Nm rm 123utility differs from historical implementations in that the 124.Fl f 125option only masks attempts to remove non-existent files instead of 126masking a large variety of errors. 127.Pp 128Also, historical 129.Bx 130implementations prompted on the standard output, 131not the standard error output. 132.Sh STANDARDS 133The 134.Nm rm 135command is expected to be 136.St -p1003.2 137compatible. 138