rm(1)

🌸 rm(1) — the "oops I deleted my whole life" manual, bestie edition 🌸

General Commands Manual ✨ this is rm, section 1, and yes she's that girl.

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💖 NAME 💖

rm — remove (unlink) the FILE(s) 💅

Like, gone gone. Poof. Not in the trash, not in "recently deleted", just gone.

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

rm [-f|--force] [-i ] [-I ] [--interactive] [--one-file-system]
[--no-preserve-root] [--preserve-root] [-r|--recursive] [-d|--dir]
[-v|--verbose] [-g|--progress] [-h|--help] [-V|--version] [files]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Remove (unlink) the FILE(s) 🫶

That's it. That's the whole vibe. She takes files and she un-alives them. No cap.

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

okay so here's the whole menu, bestie, don't skip any of it, every single one matters:

• -f, --force — ignore nonexistent files and arguments, and never prompt. She doesn't want to hear it. She's not asking. 🔥
• -i — prompt before every removal. Every single one. Yes, even that one. Yes, even the one you already said yes to. 🙈
• -I — prompt once before removing more than three files, or when removing recursively. Less intrusive than -i, while still giving some protection against most mistakes. This is the reasonable one, lowkey the main character of the flags. 👑
• --interactive[=<WHEN>] — prompt according to WHEN: never, once (that's -I), or always (that's -i). Without WHEN, prompts always.

Possible values:

• always
• once
• never

• --one-file-system — when removing a hierarchy recursively, skip any directory that is on a file system different from that of the corresponding command line argument (NOT IMPLEMENTED). Yeah bestie, it's literally not implemented, don't come for me 💀
• --no-preserve-root — do not treat '/' specially. You're on your own with this one, fr fr. 😭
• --preserve-root — do not remove '/' (this is the default). Protection era. 🛡️
• -r, --recursive — remove directories and their contents recursively. The big one. The one that eats folders whole. 🍓
• -d, --dir — remove empty directories. Only the empty ones, she's not messy like that.
• -v, --verbose — explain what is being done. She'll narrate her own crimes. 💅
• -g, --progress — display a progress bar. Note: this feature is not supported by GNU coreutils. ⭐
• -h, --help — Print help
• -V, --version — Print version
• [files] — the files. The victims. The little guys. 🥺

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🌈 EXTRA 🌈

By default, rm does not remove directories. Use the --recursive (-r or -R) option to remove each listed directory, too, along with all of its contents.

To remove a file whose name starts with a '-', for example '-foo', use one of these commands:

rm -- -foo

rm ./-foo

⚠️ Note that if you use rm to remove a file, it might be possible to recover some of its contents, given sufficient expertise and/or time. For greater assurance that the contents are truly unrecoverable, consider using shred. So like… she's not a paper shredder, bestie. She's a girl with a delete key and zero regrets. 🧚

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💜 VERSION 💜

v(uutils coreutils) 0.7.0

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okay that's the whole page, ily, go delete responsibly and maybe back up first, mwah 🎀

signing off from the footer: rm (uutils coreutils) 0.7.0, page rm(1), from the uutils coreutils era — periodt. 💖✨🦋