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rm (short for remove) is a basic command on Unix and Unix-like operating systems used to remove objects such as computer files, directories and symbolic links from file systems and also special files such as device nodes, pipes and sockets, similar to the del command in MS-DOS, OS/2, and Microsoft Windows.
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id: Misc Mandatory Return user identity System V ipcrm: Misc Optional (XSI) Remove a message queue, semaphore set, or shared memory segment identifier System V ipcs: Misc Optional (XSI) Report interprocess communication facilities status System V jobs: Process management Optional (UP) Display status of jobs in the current session join: Text ...
If rd/rmdir gets executed without regard to case sensitivity and Windows chooses the legitimate folder to delete, the only folder left is the undesired one. Windows then uses this folder instead of the previously legitimate one to execute programs, and one may be led to believe it contains legitimate data.
will answer the prompts for confirmation with y, effectively installing foobar with sudo apt without any prompts. This usage may be obsolete today, as most commands that would request response from the user have either a 'force' option (e.g., rm-f) or an 'assume-yes' option (for example,apt-y). As an example, the following: $
This is an undocumented feature of srm 1.2.8 on Mac OS X 10.9, [1] and is erroneously documented in 1.2.11 as a behaviour activated by the OpenBSD rm-compatible option -P. [2] However, in both the OS X and SourceForge srm implementations, the behaviour of unlinking but not overwriting multi-linked files is always active, as long as the platform ...
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Nothing on the current Robert Morris article backs up the theory that rm is short for Robert Morris. rm is consistent with the many two letter command names that have been in UNIX since very near the beginning: sh, cd, cp, ln, ed, ar, as, du, cu, id, lp, nm, od, ps, pg, tr to name but a few. Simon Marchese 11:29, 2 August 2011 (UTC)