REMOVE(3P)

🦋 REMOVE(3P) — bestie edition 🦋

okay so this page is straight out of the POSIX Programmer's Manual, and we're talking about remove() today. buckle up 💅

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🌸 PROLOG 🌸

This manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual. Heads up tho — the Linux implementation of this interface may differ, so pls consult the corresponding Linux manual page for the deets on Linux behavior. Also possible: the interface might not even be implemented on Linux at all. 🙈

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✨ NAME ✨

remove — remove a file. that's it, that's the vibe 🎀

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💜 SYNOPSIS 💜

#include <stdio.h>

int remove(const char *path);

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🫶 DESCRIPTION 🫶

So the functionality on this reference page is aligned with the ISO C standard. If there's any conflict between the requirements described here and the ISO C standard, that conflict is unintentional — no drama intended, fr fr. This volume of POSIX.1‐2017 defers to the ISO C standard, periodt.

The remove() function shall cause the file named by the pathname pointed to by path to be no longer accessible by that name. A subsequent attempt to open that file using that name shall fail, unless it is created anew. like, the name is just gone from your life 💀

If path does not name a directory, remove(path) shall be equivalent to unlink(path).

If path names a directory, remove(path) shall be equivalent to rmdir(path).

so basically it's giving "which one are you, file or folder?" energy and it picks the right function for you 👑

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🌈 RETURN VALUE 🌈

Refer to rmdir() or unlink(). iykyk 💫

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🍓 ERRORS 🍓

Refer to rmdir() or unlink().

The following sections are informative.

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🎀 EXAMPLES 🎀

🌟 Removing Access to a File 🌟

The following example shows how to remove access to a file named /home/cnd/old_mods.

#include <stdio.h>

int status;
...
status = remove("/home/cnd/old_mods");

bye bye old mods 🦋

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💅 APPLICATION USAGE 💅

None.

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⭐ RATIONALE ⭐

None.

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🧚 FUTURE DIRECTIONS 🧚

None.

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• rmdir()
• unlink()
• The Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1‐2017, <stdio.h>

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💖 COPYRIGHT 💖

Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form from IEEE Std 1003.1-2017, Standard for Information Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7, 2018 Edition, Copyright (C) 2018 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open Group. In the event of any discrepancy between this version and the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard is the referee document. The original Standard can be obtained online at http://www.opengroup.org/unix/online.html .

Any typographical or formatting errors that appear in this page are most likely to have been introduced during the conversion of the source files to man page format. To report such errors, see https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html .

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and that's the whole page bestie, no cap 🫶 go forth and remove() responsibly

IEEE/The Open Group — 2017 — REMOVE(3P) 💜 slay, that's a wrap ✨