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rm

The remove command rm is used to delete files from the file system. After options this command expects a file name. Wild cards are permitted here, so the command can remove more than one file at a time. Several options for this command are:


\begin{hanging} \item{-r} recursively remove files from sub-directories. \item{-... ...existent files. \item{-i} prompt for each file before removing it. \end{hanging}

Example:

rm -r /home/fred/$*$

will remove all the files in all the directories of /home/fred.


Dale Scheetz