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This is an old revision of CommandRm made by DavidLee on 2009-05-31 14:02:38.
Command rm
This command is part of the posix extensions and needs to be imported to be available to the shell.
See Posix Commands
Name
rm removes (deletes) filesSynopsis
rm [options] file [file ...]Options
-r recursively delete files
-f force deletion
-rf both -r and -f
Description
Removes each argument. If -r or -rf is specified and the argument is a directory, then recursively deletes all files in the directory first.
If -r is not specified then directories are not deleted (see rmdir) to remove directories.
Return Value
Returns 0 if the command executed successfully, 1 if there was an error.CategoryCommands
CommandsPosix
