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    RMDIR(1)	    UNIX Programmer's Manual		 RMDIR(1)

    NAME
         rmdir, rm	- remove (unlink) directories or files

    SYNOPSIS
         rmdir dir ...

         rm [ -f ] [ -r ] [ -i ] [ - ] file ...

    DESCRIPTION
         Rmdir removes entries for the named directories, which must
         be empty.

         Rm removes the entries for one or more files from a direc-
         tory.  If an entry was the last link to the file, the file
         is destroyed.  Removal of a file requires write permission
         in its directory, but neither read nor write permission on
         the file itself.

         If a file has no write permission and the standard input is
         a terminal, its permissions are printed and a line is read
         from the standard input.  If that line begins with `y' the
         file is deleted, otherwise the file remains.  No questions
         are asked and no errors are reported when the -f (force)
         option is given.

         If a designated file is a directory, an error comment is
         printed unless the optional argument -r has been used.  In
         that case, rm recursively deletes the entire contents of the
         specified directory, and the directory itself.

         If the -i (interactive) option is in effect, rm asks whether
         to delete each file, and, under -r, whether to examine each
         directory.

         The null option - indicates that all the arguments following
         it are to be treated as file names.  This allows the specif-
         ication of file names starting with a minus.

    SEE ALSO
         rm(1), unlink(2), rmdir(2)

    Printed 11/26/99	 April 29, 1985                         1

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