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rm

basic UNIX command used to remove objects such as files and directories
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Facts

5 properties
Instance of
standard UNIX utility or command
Part of
GNU Core Utilities[2]
Has use
file unlinking[3]
Has command line option
f, i, R, r[10][11][12][13]
Reads environment variable
LANG, LC_ALL, LC_COLLATE, LC_CTYPE, LC_MESSAGES, NLSPATH[4][5][6][7][8][9]
🏷️ Also known as
en rm ar Rm ar آر إم ar آر ام fr remove ro remove ru rm -rf / tr Rm (Unix)
🔖 Identifiers · 5
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Rm --help Command - Unix.png ↗
BabelNet ID
00705707n
Described at URL
pubs.opengroup.org
Freebase ID
/m/055k4l
Man page
rm.1

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Summary

rm is a standard UNIX utility or command[1].

Related Entities

GNU Core Utilities

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . GNU.org. wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . pubs.opengroup.org. pubs.opengroup.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . pubs.opengroup.org. pubs.opengroup.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . pubs.opengroup.org. pubs.opengroup.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . pubs.opengroup.org. pubs.opengroup.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . pubs.opengroup.org. pubs.opengroup.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . pubs.opengroup.org. pubs.opengroup.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . pubs.opengroup.org. pubs.opengroup.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . pubs.opengroup.org. pubs.opengroup.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . pubs.opengroup.org. pubs.opengroup.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . pubs.opengroup.org. pubs.opengroup.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

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  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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