RM(C)                    XENIX System V                     RM(C)



     Name
          rm, rmdir  - Removes files or directories.

     Syntax
          rm [ -fri ] file ...

          rmdir dir ...

     Description
          rm removes the entries for one or more files from a
          directory.  If an entry was the last link to the file, the
          file is destroyed.  Removal of a file requires write
          permission in its directory, but neither read nor write
          permission on the file itself.

          If a file has no write permission and the standard input is
          a terminal, its 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.  No questions
          are asked when the -f option is given or if the standard
          input is not a terminal.

          If a designated file is a directory, an error comment is
          printed unless the optional argument -r has been used.  In
          that case, rm recursively deletes the entire contents of the
          specified directory, and the directory itself.

          If the -i (interactive) option is in effect, rm asks whether
          to delete each file, and if the -r option is in effect,
          whether to examine each directory.

          rmdir removes empty directories.

     See Also
          rmdir(C)

     Diagnostics
          Generally self-explanatory.  It is forbidden to remove the
          file .. to avoid the consequences of inadvertently doing
          something like:

               rm -r .*

          It is also forbidden to remove the root directory of a given
          file system.

          No more than 17 levels of subdirectories can be removed
          using the -r option.







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