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rm command
The rm command is used to remove the file(s).
Syntax: rm [options] file
Example:
rm main.js
Options:
-r
To remove directories and its content recursively
Example
rm -r folder
-f
To ignore non existent files
Example
rm -f file{1..5}.txt
In below example, we have taken four files - file{1,2,4,5}.txt and we tried to remove it using loop from 1 to 5 with and without -f flag. We can see if we don't use the force flag i.e. -f, we get a message saying No such file or directory. And when we added -f flag it ignored all non-existent files.
-i
Ask before removing files
Example
rm -ri ./*
Note: Added recursive flag (r) also to remove directories recursively.
