NAME

drm − Remove Remote DECnet Files

SYNTAX

drm [−d] filespec

DESCRIPTION

The drm command removes the entries for one or more files from a remote DECnet directory.  Removal of a file requires write permission in the respective directory, but neither read nor write permission on the file itself.  The filespec argument is a complete file specification for a remote DECnet file or directory.  The format for a file specification varies with each Digital operating system.  See the DECnet-ULTRIX documentation for a description of all DECnet file specifications. 

You can specify wildcard characters in a file specification.  You must enclose in quotes those portions of a file specification that you do not want the local shell to interpret, such as the portions of a file specification that contain foreign wildcard characters.  See DECnet-ULTRIX documentation for more information. 

If a file has no write permission and the standard input is a terminal, the file’s 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. 

The drm command will not delete a remote ULTRIX directory but can delete a non-ULTRIX directory. 

OPTIONS

−d Prints debugging information in the form of DAP message traces to stderr. 

EXAMPLES

drm smaug/jackson/secret::’slides.rno’

This command deletes the file slides.rno from user Jackson’s account on remote DECnet-VAX node Smaug.

DIAGNOSTICS

This section defines the format for the drm diagnostic messages.  Refer the DECnet-ULTRIX documentation for more information. 

drm: unknown command flag, (flag)

You have specified a flag option, defined by the flag variable, which drm does not recognize. 

drm: can’t remove filename , message

The drm command is unable to remove the file specified by the filename variable.  A secondary error message, specified by the message variable, defines the reason for the error. 

SEE ALSO

dcat(1d), dcp(1d), dls(1d), dlogin(1d)
DECnet-ULTRIX documentation