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DOS users will -notice the similarity to both the <tt class="COMMAND">del</tt> and <tt -class="COMMAND">deltree</tt> commands. <tt class="COMMAND">rm</tt> can be very dangerous -if you do not watch yourself. While it is sometimes possible to retrieve a recently -deleted file, it can be complicated (and potentially costly) and is beyond the scope of -this book.</p> - -<p>To remove a single file, specify its name when you run rm:</p> - -<table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%"> -<tr> -<td> -<pre class="SCREEN"> -<samp class="PROMPT">%</samp> <kbd class="USERINPUT">rm file1</kbd> -</pre> -</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<p>If the file has write permissions removed, you may get a permission denied error -message. To force removal of the file no matter what, pass the <tt -class="COMMAND">-f</tt> option, like this:</p> - -<table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%"> -<tr> -<td> -<pre class="SCREEN"> -<samp class="PROMPT">%</samp> <kbd class="USERINPUT">rm -f file1</kbd> -</pre> -</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<p>To remove an entire directory, you use the <var class="OPTION">-r</var> and <var -class="OPTION">-f</var> options together. This is a good example of how to delete the -entire contents of your hard drive. You really don't want to do this. But here's the -command anyway:</p> - -<table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%"> -<tr> -<td> -<pre class="SCREEN"> -<samp class="PROMPT">#</samp> <kbd class="USERINPUT">rm -rf /</kbd> -</pre> -</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<p>Be very careful with <tt class="COMMAND">rm</tt>; you can shoot yourself in the foot. -There are several command line options, which are discussed in detail in the online -manual page.</p> -</div> - -<div class="SECT2"> -<h2 class="SECT2"><a id="AEN3764" name="AEN3764">10.6.2 <tt -class="COMMAND">rmdir</tt></a></h2> - -<p><tt class="COMMAND">rmdir</tt>(1) removes directories from the filesystem. The -directory must be empty before it can be removed. The syntax is simply:</p> - -<table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%"> -<tr> -<td> -<pre class="SCREEN"> -<samp class="PROMPT">%</samp> <kbd class="USERINPUT">rmdir <<var -class="REPLACEABLE">directory</var>></kbd> -</pre> -</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<p>This example will remove the <tt class="FILENAME">hejaz</tt> subdirectory in the -current working directory:</p> - -<table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%"> -<tr> -<td> -<pre class="SCREEN"> -<samp class="PROMPT">%</samp> <kbd class="USERINPUT">rmdir hejaz</kbd> -</pre> -</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<p>If that directory does not exist, <tt class="COMMAND">rmdir</tt> will tell you. You -can also specify a full path to a directory to remove, as this example shows:</p> - -<table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%"> -<tr> -<td> -<pre class="SCREEN"> -<samp class="PROMPT">%</samp> <kbd class="USERINPUT">rmdir /tmp/hejaz</kbd> -</pre> -</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<p>That example will try to remove the <tt class="FILENAME">hejaz</tt> directory inside -the <tt class="FILENAME">/tmp</tt> directory.</p> - -<p>You can also remove a directory and all of its parent directories by passing the <var -class="OPTION">-p</var> option.</p> - -<table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%"> -<tr> -<td> -<pre class="SCREEN"> -<samp class="PROMPT">%</samp> <kbd class="USERINPUT">rmdir -p /tmp/hejaz</kbd> -</pre> -</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<p>This will first try to remove the <tt class="FILENAME">hejaz</tt> directory inside <tt -class="FILENAME">/tmp</tt>. 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