NAME

dosrm, dosrmdir − remove DOS files or directories

SYNOPSIS

dosrm [−friu] device:file ... 
dosrmdir [−u] device:file ... 

DESCRIPTION

dosrm and dosrmdir are DOS counterparts of rm(1) and rmdir(1), respectively.

dosrm removes the entries for one or more files from a directory.  If a specified file is a directory, an error message is printed unless the optional argument −r is specified (see below). 

dosrmdir removes entries for the named directories, provided they are empty. 

Options

The options are:

−f (force) Unconditionally remove the specified file, even if the file is marked read-only. 

−r Cause dosrm to recursively delete the entire contents of a directory, followed by the directory itself.  dosrm can recursively delete up to 17 levels of directories. 

−i (interactive) Cause dosrm to ask whether or not to delete each file.  If −r is also specified, dosrm asks whether to examine each directory encountered. 

−u Disable argument case conversion.  In the absence of this option, all DOS file names are converted to uppercase. 

A DOS file name is recognized by the presence of an embedded colon (:) delimiter; see dosif(4) for DOS file naming conventions. 

EXAMPLES

These examples assume that a DOS directory structure exists on the device accessed through the HP-UX special file /dev/rfd9122. 

This example recursively combs through the DOS directory /tmp and asks if each DOS file should be removed (forced, with no file mode checks):

dosrm −irf /dev/rfd9122:/tmp

The following example removes the DOS directory doug from the DOS volume stored as HP-UX file hard_disk:

dosrmdir hard_disk:doug

SEE ALSO

dos2ux(1), doschmod(1), doscp(1), dosdf(1), dosls(1), dosmkdir(1), rm(1), rmdir(1), dosif(4). 

Hewlett-Packard Company  —  HP-UX Release 8.05: June 1991