RM(1)

RM(1) 💅✨

okay bestie, this is the rm(1) page from User Contributed Perl Documentation — folding that manual-name info right in here at the top instead of copying the header line, iykyk. The vibe is simple: remove directory entries.

🌸 NAME 🌸

rm — remove directory entries.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

rm [-fiPrRv] file ...

📝 DESCRIPTION 📝

lowkey there's no extra description prose here — the original page goes straight from this heading to OPTIONS. so the options are about to carry the whole conversation, and honestly? slay.

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -f — do not prompt the user for each file, and do not consider it an error if a file cannot be removed. no nagging, no extra drama.
• -i — prompt the user for each file. yes bestie, one by one.
• -P — a no-op, for compatibility. the page's note on it is literally: “So implementations would overwrite files with random data” — quoted exactly, don't come for me.
• -r — same as -R.
• -R — remove directories recursively. it's giving “go all the way down”.
• -v — show the name of each file after it is removed. a little receipt, a little narration. iconic.

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Copyright (c) brian d foy, bdfoy@cpan.org.

The original version of this program was written by Steve Kemp, steve@steve.org.uk, but almost none of that remains. periodt.

🌈 LICENCE 🌈

This program is licensed under the Artistic License 2.0. legal queen behavior.

okay that's the whole page, bestie 🫶 this one is from perl v5.42.2, dated 2026-02-15 — mwah, bye 💖