Originální popis anglicky:
rm - remove files or directories
Návod, kniha: General Commands Manual
rm [options] file...
POSIX options:
[-fiRr] [--]
GNU options (shortest form):
[-dfirvR] [--help] [--version] [--]
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.
- -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.
- --
- Terminate option list.
The System V Interface Definition forbids removal of the last link to an
executable binary file that is being executed.
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.)
- -d, --directory
- Remove directories with unlink(2) instead of
rmdir(2), 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 fsck(8) 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.
- --help
- Print a usage message on standard output and exit
successfully.
- --version
- Print version information on standard output, then exit
successfully.
- --
- Terminate option list.
The variables LANG, LC_ALL, LC_COLLATE, LC_CTYPE and LC_MESSAGES have the usual
meaning.
POSIX 1003.2, except for the limitation on file hierarchy depth.
This page describes
rm as found in the fileutils-4.0 package; other
versions may differ slightly.
Sometimes one wishes to recover deleted files. It helps to have backups. It
helps to use a trash directory, so that removed files are only moved to the
trash. But actually removed files, although gone in principle, can sometimes
be recovered. For details for the ext2 filesystem, see the Ext2fs-Undeletion
mini-Howto.
