Rm

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UNIXi laadsetes operatsioonisüsteemides on võimalik rm ehk remove käsu abil kustutada faile ja kaustu

SYNOPSIS

      rm [OPTION]... [FILE]...

DESCRIPTION

      This manual page documents the GNU version of rm.  rm removes each
      specified file.  By default, it does not remove directories.

      If the -I or --interactive=once option is given, and there are more
      than three files or the -r, -R, or --recursive are given, then rm
      prompts the user for whether to proceed with the entire operation.
      If the response is not affirmative, the entire command is aborted.

      Otherwise, if a file is unwritable, standard input is a terminal, and
      the -f or --force option is not given, or the -i or
      --interactive=always option is given, rm prompts the user for whether
      to remove the file.  If the response is not affirmative, the file is
      skipped.

OPTIONS

      Remove (unlink) the FILE(s).

      -f, --force
             ignore nonexistent files and arguments, never prompt

      -i     prompt before every removal

      -I     prompt once before removing more than three files, or when
             removing recursively; less intrusive than -i, while still
             giving protection against most mistakes

      --interactive[=WHEN]
             prompt according to WHEN: never, once (-I), or always (-i);
             without WHEN, prompt always

      --one-file-system
             when removing a hierarchy recursively, skip any directory that
             is on a file system different from that of the corresponding
             command line argument

      --no-preserve-root
             do not treat '/' specially

      --preserve-root
             do not remove '/' (default)

      -r, -R, --recursive
             remove directories and their contents recursively

      -d, --dir
             remove empty directories

      -v, --verbose
             explain what is being done

      --help display this help and exit

      --version
             output version information and exit

      By default, rm does not remove directories.  Use the --recursive (-r
      or -R) option to remove each listed directory, too, along with all of
      its contents.

      To remove a file whose name starts with a '-', for example '-foo',
      use one of these commands:

             rm -- -foo

             rm ./-foo

      Note that if you use rm to remove a file, it might be possible to
      recover some of its contents, given sufficient expertise and/or time.
      For greater assurance that the contents are truly unrecoverable,
      consider using shred.