The rm Utility

Learn about the utility rm in detail.

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The rm utility deletes files and directories. Specify the object to delete by its absolute or relative path. Here are examples of rm calls:

rm report.txt
rm ~/docs/reports/2019/report.txt

The first call deletes the report.txt file in the current directory. The second one deletes it in the ~/docs/reports/2019 path.

Removing files and directories

Run the commands discussed in this lesson in the terminal below.

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