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rm

The remove command rm is used to delete files from the file system. After

options this command expects a file name. Wild cards are permitted here, so

the command can remove more than one file at a time. Several options for

this command are:

 r

recursively remove files from sub directories.

 f

never prompt for files to remove and ignore nonexistent

files.

 i

prompt for each file before removing it.

Example:

rm  r /home/fred/ 

will remove all the files in all the directories of /home/fred.