2 rm \- remove files or directories
5 documents the GNU version of
8 removes each specified file. By default, it does not remove
11 If a file is unwritable, the standard input is a tty, and
12 the \fI\-f\fR or \fI\-\-force\fR option is not given,
14 prompts the user for whether to remove the file. If the response
15 does not begin with `y' or `Y', the file is skipped.
19 like every program that uses the getopt function to parse its
20 arguments, lets you use the
22 option to indicate that all following arguments are non-options. To
23 remove a file called `\-f' in the current directory, you could type
34 program's use of a single `\-' for this purpose predates the
35 development of the getopt standard syntax.