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Rm (Unix)

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rm (short for remove) is a basic UNIX command used to remove objects such as files, directories and symbolic links from filesystems and also special files such as device nodes, pipes and sockets. [1]

32 relations: Aliasing, Bourne shell, C shell, Del (command), DELTREE, Device file, Douglas McIlroy, FreeBSD, GNU, GNU Core Utilities, List of Unix commands, Pipeline (Unix), Research Unix, Rmdir, Shell (computing), Shred (Unix), Solaris (operating system), Srm (Unix), Sticky bit, Sun Microsystems, Superuser, Symbolic link, System call, Toy Story 2, Trash (computing), Undeletion, Unix, Unix domain socket, Unlink (Unix), User space, Version 7 Unix, Xargs.

Aliasing

In signal processing and related disciplines, aliasing is an effect that causes different signals to become indistinguishable (or aliases of one another) when sampled.

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Bourne shell

The Bourne shell (sh) is a shell, or command-line interpreter, for computer operating systems.

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C shell

The C shell (csh or the improved version, tcsh) is a Unix shell created by Bill Joy while he was a graduate student at University of California, Berkeley in the late 1970s.

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Del (command)

In computing, del (or erase) is a command in all DOS, OS/2 and Microsoft Windows command line interpreters (shells) such as COMMAND.COM, cmd.exe, 4DOS, NDOS, 4OS2, 4NT and Windows PowerShell.

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DELTREE

DELTREE (short for delete tree) is a command line command in some Microsoft operating systems that recursively deletes an entire subdirectory of files.

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Device file

In Unix-like operating systems, a device file or special file is an interface to a device driver that appears in a file system as if it were an ordinary file.

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Douglas McIlroy

Malcolm Douglas McIlroy (born 1932) is a mathematician, engineer, and programmer.

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FreeBSD

FreeBSD is a free and open-source Unix-like operating system descended from Research Unix via the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD).

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GNU

GNU is an operating system and an extensive collection of computer software.

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GNU Core Utilities

The GNU Core Utilities or coreutils is a package of GNU software containing reimplementations for many of the basic tools, such as cat, ls, and rm, which are used on Unix-like operating systems.

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List of Unix commands

This is a list of Unix commands as specified by IEEE Std 1003.1-2008, which is part of the Single UNIX Specification (SUS).

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Pipeline (Unix)

In Unix-like computer operating systems, a pipeline is a sequence of processes chained together by their standard streams, so that the output of each process (stdout) feeds directly as input (stdin) to the next one.

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Research Unix

Research Unix is a term used to refer to versions of the Unix operating system for DEC PDP-7, PDP-11, VAX and Interdata 7/32 and 8/32 computers, developed in the Bell Labs Computing Science Research Center (frequently referred to as Department 1127).

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Rmdir

rmdir (or rd) is a command which will remove an empty directory on a Unix (e.g. macOS, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX), Unix-like (e.g. FreeBSD, Linux), DOS, OS/2 or Microsoft Windows operating system.

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Shell (computing)

In computing, a shell is a user interface for access to an operating system's services.

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Shred (Unix)

shred is a Unix command that can be used to securely delete files and devices so that they can be recovered only with great difficulty with specialized hardware, if at all.

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Solaris (operating system)

Solaris is a Unix operating system originally developed by Sun Microsystems.

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Srm (Unix)

srm (or Secure Remove) is a command line utility for Unix-like computer systems for secure file deletion.

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Sticky bit

In computing, the sticky bit is a user ownership access right flag that can be assigned to files and directories on Unix-like systems.

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Sun Microsystems

Sun Microsystems, Inc. was an American company that sold computers, computer components, software, and information technology services and created the Java programming language, the Solaris operating system, ZFS, the Network File System (NFS), and SPARC.

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Superuser

In computing, the superuser is a special user account used for system administration.

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Symbolic link

In computing, a symbolic link (also symlink or soft link) is a term for any file that contains a reference to another file or directory in the form of an absolute or relative path and that affects pathname resolution.

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System call

In computing, a system call is the programmatic way in which a computer program requests a service from the kernel of the operating system it is executed on.

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Toy Story 2

Toy Story 2 is a 1999 American computer-animated comedy film produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures.

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Trash (computing)

In computing, the Trash (also known as the Recycle Bin in Windows and by other names in other operating systems) is temporary storage for files that have been deleted in a file manager by the user, but not yet permanently erased from the file system.

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Undeletion

Undeletion is a feature for restoring computer files which have been removed from a file system by file deletion.

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Unix

Unix (trademarked as UNIX) is a family of multitasking, multiuser computer operating systems that derive from the original AT&T Unix, development starting in the 1970s at the Bell Labs research center by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and others.

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Unix domain socket

A Unix domain socket or IPC socket (inter-process communication socket) is a data communications endpoint for exchanging data between processes executing on the same host operating system.

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Unlink (Unix)

In Unix-like operating systems, unlink is a system call and a command line utility to delete files.

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User space

A modern computer operating system usually segregates virtual memory into kernel space and user space.

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Version 7 Unix

Seventh Edition Unix, also called Version 7 Unix, Version 7 or just V7, was an important early release of the Unix operating system.

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Xargs

xargs is a command on Unix and most Unix-like operating systems used to build and execute commands from standard input.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rm_(Unix)

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