rm

Options

--force, -f

rm-help-force

-i

rm-help-prompt-always

-I

rm-help-prompt-once

--interactive=<WHEN>

rm-help-interactive

--one-file-system

rm-help-one-file-system

--no-preserve-root

rm-help-no-preserve-root

--preserve-root

rm-help-preserve-root

--recursive, -r, -R

rm-help-recursive

--dir, -d

rm-help-dir

--verbose, -v

rm-help-verbose

--presume-input-tty

Examples

Remove specific files:

rm {{path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ...}}

Remove specific files ignoring nonexistent ones:

rm {{[-f|--force]}} {{path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ...}}

Remove specific files interactively prompting before each removal:

rm {{[-i|--interactive]}} {{path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ...}}

Remove specific files printing info about each removal:

rm {{[-v|--verbose]}} {{path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ...}}

Remove specific files and directories recursively:

rm {{[-r|--recursive]}} {{path/to/file_or_directory1 path/to/file_or_directory2 ...}}

Remove empty directories (this is considered the safe method):

rm {{[-d|--dir]}} {{path/to/directory}}

The examples are provided by the tldr-pages project under the CC BY 4.0 License.

Please note that, as uutils is a work in progress, some examples might fail.