1.\" Copyright (c) 1990 The Regents of the University of California. 2.\" All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" %sccs.include.redist.man% 5.\" 6.\" @(#)rm.1 6.3 (Berkeley) 06/11/90 7.\" 8.Dd 9.Dt RM 1 10.Os BSD 4.4 11.Sh NAME 12.Nm rm 13.Nd remove directory entries 14.Sh SYNOPSIS 15.Nm rm 16.Op Fl f Li \&| Fl i 17.Op Fl Rr 18.Ar file ... 19.Sh DESCRIPTION 20The rm utility removes the directory entry specified by each 21file argument. 22.Pp 23The following options are available: 24.Tp Fl f 25Force each specified directory entry to be removed 26without prompting for confirmation, regardless of 27the permissions of the file to which it refers. 28Suppress diagnostic messages regarding non-existent 29operands. 30.Tp Fl i 31Write a prompt to the standard error output 32requesting confirmation before removing each existing 33directory entry, regardless of the permissions 34of the file to which it refers. 35.Tp Fl R 36Permit directories to be removed. 37.Pp 38.Tp Fl r 39Equivalent to 40.FL R. 41.Tp 42.Pp 43The following operands are available: 44.Tw Fl 45.Tp Ar file 46A pathname of a directory entry to be removed. 47.Tp 48.Pp 49The 50.Nm rm 51utility exits with one of the following values: 52.Tw Ds 53.Tp Li 0 54All the named directory entries were removed. 55.Tp Li >0 56An error occurred. 57.Tp 58.Sh ENVIRONMENT 59.Sh SEE ALSO 60.Sh STANDARDS 61The 62.Nm rm 63function is expected to be POSIX 1003.2 compatible. 64