IRM(1)

💅 IRM(1) — irm, an iRODS iCommand 🎀

okay bestie, this is the IRM(1) manual page for irm, an iRODS iCommand — welcome to the group chat, we're gonna get you comfy with it ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

irm — an iRODS iCommand 💖

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

irm [-rUfvVh] [--empty] dataObj|collection ...

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Remove one or more data objects and/or collections from the iRODS namespace. By default, the data objects are moved to the trash collection (/myZone/trash) unless the -f option is used. 🗑️✨

Registered non-vault replicas are never deleted from the filesystem. They are unregistered and left on disk as-is. no cap, that's the vibe check 🫶

To remove a specific replica, use itrim. 🧚

To unregister a data object without removing the physical data, use iunreg. 🌈

The irmtrash command should be used to delete data objects in the trash collection. 💅

🚨 bestie, remember: default behavior = trash collection (/myZone/trash), and -f is the immediate-removal override. Don't mix those up 😭

🎀 Options are: 🎀

• -f — force 💥 — Immediate removal of data objects without putting them in trash. It also ignores non-existent data objects and collections.
• -r — recursive 🌀 — recursively remove the target collection, all data objects in the collection, and all subcollections.
• -v — verbose 💬
• -V — Very verbose 🔥
• --empty — 🎁 if the file to be removed is a bundle file (generated with iphybun), remove it only if all the subfiles of the bundle have been removed.
• -h — this help 🙋‍♀️

✨ sign-off sparkle ✨ This is the IRM(1) page in the User Commands section, sourced from irm iRODS-5.0.2, dated January 1980, and it's part of iRODS Version 5.0.2 — with irm in the footer too. mwah 💋