rm Command Examples

Remove files or directories. See also: rmdir. More information: https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/rm.

• Remove specific files:

rm {{path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ...}}

• Remove specific files ignoring nonexistent ones:

rm -f {{path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ...}}

• Remove specific files interactively prompting before each removal:

rm -i {{path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ...}}

• Remove specific files printing info about each removal:

rm -v {{path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ...}}

• Remove specific files and directories recursively:

rm -r {{path/to/file_or_directory1 path/to/file_or_directory2 ...}}