Editing Rm (Unix) (section)

== Options ==

Options commonly provided by a command implementation:

*<code>-r</code>, '''r'''ecursive; remove directories and their content recursively
*<code>-i</code>, '''i'''nteractive; ask user to confirm deleting each file
*<code>-f</code>, '''f'''orce; ignore non-existent files and override any confirmation prompts (effectively canceling <code>-i</code>), does ''not'' allow removing files from a write-protected directory
*<code>-v</code>, '''v'''erbose; log status
*<code>-d</code>, '''d'''irectory; remove any empty directories
*<code>--one-file-system</code>, only remove files on the same file system as the argument; ignore mounted file systems