hprm(1)

📦 version 1.0.4, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 hprm — remove a file or directory on an HFS+ volume 💖

okay bestie, so you've got an HFS+ volume and you need something GONE. That's literally what hprm is for. It lives in the General Commands Manual (section 1, obvi), and it's your girl for deleting files and directories off an HFS+ filesystem. Let's get into it 🫶

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

hprm [-R] [-f] hfs-path

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So here's the tea: hprm removes the file or directory specified by hfs-path. Simple. Iconic. That's the whole job.

BUT. And this is a big but — write access to HFS+ volumes is still experimental. Like, the devs said "we're working on it" and meant it. So before hprm writes anything to the file system, it prints a warning message and prompts you first. It's basically asking "bestie, are you SURE?" before it does anything permanent. Respect honestly 💅

hprm accepts the following options:

  • -R — recursively remove the contents of a directory. It's giving "and everything inside it too, no survivors" 🦋
  • -f — okay so one day, this option will probably disable prompting. That's the plan. That's the dream. But for the time being? Prompting is always enabled. So -f is out here living its best placeholder life. It does not do the thing yet. No cap.
💀 not me having to say this but fr fr: that warning prompt is not going anywhere right now. -f will not skip it. Do not count on it.

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

This manual page was written by Jens Schmalzing <jensen@debian.org> for Debian GNU/Linux, using the manual page by Klaus Halfmann <halfmann@libra.de> that comes with the source code, plus documentation from the Tech Info Library. Legends only, we stan 🌈

and that's the whole page bestie ✨ it's hprm(1) from the General Commands Manual, and it ate, periodt 💖🧚🌸

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