RM
abbr.
1 (in the UK) Royal Marines.
2 Resident Magistrate.
3 (in the UK) Royal Mail.

rm
abbr.
1 (in the UK) Royal Marines.
2 Resident Magistrate.
3 (in the UK) Royal Mail.

rm.
abbr. room.

RM RM is written after someone's name to show that they are an officer of the Royal Marines, one of the units which make up the United Kingdom's armed forces. ...Captain Alastair Rogers, RM.

RM Resource Management

rm RM(1) User Commands RM(1) NAME rm - remove files or directories SYNOPSIS rm [OPTION]... FILE... DESCRIPTION This manual page documents the GNU version of rm. rm removes each specified file. By default, it does not remove directories. If a file is unwritable, the standard input is a tty, and the -f or --force option is not given, rm prompts the user for whether to remove the file. If the response does not begin with `y' or `Y', the file is skipped. OPTIONS Remove (unlink) the FILE(s). -d, --directory unlink FILE, even if it is a non-empty directory (super-user only; this works only if your system supports `unlink' for nonempty directories) -f, --force ignore nonexistent files, never prompt -i, --interactive prompt before any removal --no-preserve-root do not treat `/' specially (the default) --preserve-root fail to operate recursively on `/' -r, -R, --recursive remove the contents of directories recursively -v, --verbose explain what is being done --help display this help and exit --version output version information and exit To remove a file whose name starts with a `-', for example `-foo', use one of these commands: rm -- -foo rm ./-foo Note that if you use rm to remove a file, it is usually possible to recover the contents of that file. If you want more assurance that the contents are truly unrecoverable, consider using shred. AUTHOR Written by Paul Rubin, David MacKenzie, Richard Stallman, and Jim Mey- ering. REPORTING BUGS Report bugs to . COPYRIGHT Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. SEE ALSO chattr(1), shred(1) The full documentation for rm is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and rm programs are properly installed at your site, the com- mand info coreutils rm should give you access to the complete manual. rm (coreutils) 5.2.1 July 2004 RM(1)

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