1 /* 'rm' file deletion utility for GNU.
2 Copyright (C) 1988-2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
4 This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
5 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
6 the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
7 (at your option) any later version.
9 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
10 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
11 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
12 GNU General Public License for more details.
14 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
15 along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
17 /* Initially written by Paul Rubin, David MacKenzie, and Richard Stallman.
18 Reworked to use chdir and avoid recursion, and later, rewritten
19 once again, to use fts, by Jim Meyering. */
24 #include <sys/types.h>
31 #include "root-dev-ino.h"
35 /* The official name of this program (e.g., no 'g' prefix). */
36 #define PROGRAM_NAME "rm"
39 proper_name ("Paul Rubin"), \
40 proper_name ("David MacKenzie"), \
41 proper_name ("Richard M. Stallman"), \
42 proper_name ("Jim Meyering")
44 /* For long options that have no equivalent short option, use a
45 non-character as a pseudo short option, starting with CHAR_MAX + 1. */
48 INTERACTIVE_OPTION
= CHAR_MAX
+ 1,
52 PRESUME_INPUT_TTY_OPTION
57 interactive_never
, /* 0: no option or --interactive=never */
58 interactive_once
, /* 1: -I or --interactive=once */
59 interactive_always
/* 2: default, -i or --interactive=always */
62 static struct option
const long_opts
[] =
64 {"force", no_argument
, NULL
, 'f'},
65 {"interactive", optional_argument
, NULL
, INTERACTIVE_OPTION
},
67 {"one-file-system", no_argument
, NULL
, ONE_FILE_SYSTEM
},
68 {"no-preserve-root", no_argument
, NULL
, NO_PRESERVE_ROOT
},
69 {"preserve-root", no_argument
, NULL
, PRESERVE_ROOT
},
71 /* This is solely for testing. Do not document. */
72 /* It is relatively difficult to ensure that there is a tty on stdin.
73 Since rm acts differently depending on that, without this option,
74 it'd be harder to test the parts of rm that depend on that setting. */
75 {"-presume-input-tty", no_argument
, NULL
, PRESUME_INPUT_TTY_OPTION
},
77 {"recursive", no_argument
, NULL
, 'r'},
78 {"dir", no_argument
, NULL
, 'd'},
79 {"verbose", no_argument
, NULL
, 'v'},
80 {GETOPT_HELP_OPTION_DECL
},
81 {GETOPT_VERSION_OPTION_DECL
},
85 static char const *const interactive_args
[] =
87 "never", "no", "none",
91 static enum interactive_type
const interactive_types
[] =
93 interactive_never
, interactive_never
, interactive_never
,
95 interactive_always
, interactive_always
97 ARGMATCH_VERIFY (interactive_args
, interactive_types
);
99 /* Advise the user about invalid usages like "rm -foo" if the file
100 "-foo" exists, assuming ARGC and ARGV are as with 'main'. */
103 diagnose_leading_hyphen (int argc
, char **argv
)
105 /* OPTIND is unreliable, so iterate through the arguments looking
106 for a file name that looks like an option. */
109 for (i
= 1; i
< argc
; i
++)
111 char const *arg
= argv
[i
];
114 if (arg
[0] == '-' && arg
[1] && lstat (arg
, &st
) == 0)
117 _("Try '%s ./%s' to remove the file %s.\n"),
119 quotearg_n_style (1, shell_escape_quoting_style
, arg
),
129 if (status
!= EXIT_SUCCESS
)
133 printf (_("Usage: %s [OPTION]... [FILE]...\n"), program_name
);
135 Remove (unlink) the FILE(s).\n\
137 -f, --force ignore nonexistent files and arguments, never prompt\n\
138 -i prompt before every removal\n\
141 -I prompt once before removing more than three files, or\n\
142 when removing recursively; less intrusive than -i,\n\
143 while still giving protection against most mistakes\n\
144 --interactive[=WHEN] prompt according to WHEN: never, once (-I), or\n\
145 always (-i); without WHEN, prompt always\n\
148 --one-file-system when removing a hierarchy recursively, skip any\n\
149 directory that is on a file system different from\n\
150 that of the corresponding command line argument\n\
153 --no-preserve-root do not treat '/' specially\n\
154 --preserve-root do not remove '/' (default)\n\
155 -r, -R, --recursive remove directories and their contents recursively\n\
156 -d, --dir remove empty directories\n\
157 -v, --verbose explain what is being done\n\
159 fputs (HELP_OPTION_DESCRIPTION
, stdout
);
160 fputs (VERSION_OPTION_DESCRIPTION
, stdout
);
163 By default, rm does not remove directories. Use the --recursive (-r or -R)\n\
164 option to remove each listed directory, too, along with all of its contents.\n\
168 To remove a file whose name starts with a '-', for example '-foo',\n\
169 use one of these commands:\n\
174 program_name
, program_name
);
177 Note that if you use rm to remove a file, it might be possible to recover\n\
178 some of its contents, given sufficient expertise and/or time. For greater\n\
179 assurance that the contents are truly unrecoverable, consider using shred.\n\
181 emit_ancillary_info (PROGRAM_NAME
);
187 rm_option_init (struct rm_options
*x
)
189 x
->ignore_missing_files
= false;
190 x
->interactive
= RMI_SOMETIMES
;
191 x
->one_file_system
= false;
192 x
->remove_empty_directories
= false;
193 x
->recursive
= false;
194 x
->root_dev_ino
= NULL
;
195 x
->stdin_tty
= isatty (STDIN_FILENO
);
198 /* Since this program exits immediately after calling 'rm', rm need not
199 expend unnecessary effort to preserve the initial working directory. */
200 x
->require_restore_cwd
= false;
204 main (int argc
, char **argv
)
206 bool preserve_root
= true;
208 bool prompt_once
= false;
211 initialize_main (&argc
, &argv
);
212 set_program_name (argv
[0]);
213 setlocale (LC_ALL
, "");
214 bindtextdomain (PACKAGE
, LOCALEDIR
);
215 textdomain (PACKAGE
);
217 atexit (close_stdin
);
221 /* Try to disable the ability to unlink a directory. */
222 priv_set_remove_linkdir ();
224 while ((c
= getopt_long (argc
, argv
, "dfirvIR", long_opts
, NULL
)) != -1)
229 x
.remove_empty_directories
= true;
233 x
.interactive
= RMI_NEVER
;
234 x
.ignore_missing_files
= true;
239 x
.interactive
= RMI_ALWAYS
;
240 x
.ignore_missing_files
= false;
245 x
.interactive
= RMI_SOMETIMES
;
246 x
.ignore_missing_files
= false;
255 case INTERACTIVE_OPTION
:
259 i
= XARGMATCH ("--interactive", optarg
, interactive_args
,
262 i
= interactive_always
;
265 case interactive_never
:
266 x
.interactive
= RMI_NEVER
;
270 case interactive_once
:
271 x
.interactive
= RMI_SOMETIMES
;
272 x
.ignore_missing_files
= false;
276 case interactive_always
:
277 x
.interactive
= RMI_ALWAYS
;
278 x
.ignore_missing_files
= false;
285 case ONE_FILE_SYSTEM
:
286 x
.one_file_system
= true;
289 case NO_PRESERVE_ROOT
:
290 preserve_root
= false;
294 preserve_root
= true;
297 case PRESUME_INPUT_TTY_OPTION
:
305 case_GETOPT_HELP_CHAR
;
306 case_GETOPT_VERSION_CHAR (PROGRAM_NAME
, AUTHORS
);
308 diagnose_leading_hyphen (argc
, argv
);
309 usage (EXIT_FAILURE
);
315 if (x
.ignore_missing_files
)
319 error (0, 0, _("missing operand"));
320 usage (EXIT_FAILURE
);
324 if (x
.recursive
&& preserve_root
)
326 static struct dev_ino dev_ino_buf
;
327 x
.root_dev_ino
= get_root_dev_ino (&dev_ino_buf
);
328 if (x
.root_dev_ino
== NULL
)
329 error (EXIT_FAILURE
, errno
, _("failed to get attributes of %s"),
333 uintmax_t n_files
= argc
- optind
;
334 char **file
= argv
+ optind
;
336 if (prompt_once
&& (x
.recursive
|| 3 < n_files
))
340 ? ngettext ("%s: remove %"PRIuMAX
" argument recursively? ",
341 "%s: remove %"PRIuMAX
" arguments recursively? ",
342 select_plural (n_files
))
343 : ngettext ("%s: remove %"PRIuMAX
" argument? ",
344 "%s: remove %"PRIuMAX
" arguments? ",
345 select_plural (n_files
))),
346 program_name
, n_files
);
351 enum RM_status status
= rm (file
, &x
);
352 assert (VALID_STATUS (status
));
353 return status
== RM_ERROR
? EXIT_FAILURE
: EXIT_SUCCESS
;