Example
To remove a file named "foo" from a directory one could type:
% rm fooNormally, no output is produced by rm, since it typically only generates messages in the event of an error. The -v option can be used to get rm to detail successful removal actions.
Users concerned about removing files unexpectedly - particularly when using wildcards - sometimes use the -i option to cause rm to verify each removal in advance, although this method has its own problems.
% rm -i foo remove foo? yRead more about this topic: Rm (Unix)
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