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authorcharnier <charnier@FreeBSD.org>1998-05-18 06:37:35 +0000
committercharnier <charnier@FreeBSD.org>1998-05-18 06:37:35 +0000
commit75bfd9abdd632d86c5f979fad2eb2c86d45e68b8 (patch)
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.Nm rm -> .Nm.
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diff --git a/bin/rm/rm.1 b/bin/rm/rm.1
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@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
.\" @(#)rm.1 8.5 (Berkeley) 12/5/94
-.\" $Id: rm.1,v 1.10 1997/04/29 10:03:09 dfr Exp $
+.\" $Id: rm.1,v 1.11 1997/08/07 21:37:38 steve Exp $
.\"
.Dd December 5, 1994
.Dt RM 1
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@
.Ar file ...
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
-.Nm rm
+.Nm
utility attempts to remove the non-directory type files specified on the
command line.
If the permissions of the file do not permit writing, and the standard
@@ -101,26 +101,26 @@ that directory is skipped.
Equivalent to
.Fl R .
.It Fl W
-Attempts to undelete the named files.
+Attempt to undelete the named files.
Currently, this option can only be used to recover
files covered by whiteouts.
.El
.Pp
The
-.Nm rm
+.Nm
utility removes symbolic links, not the files referenced by the links.
.Pp
It is an error to attempt to remove the files ``.'' and ``..''.
.Pp
The
-.Nm rm
+.Nm
utility exits 0 if all of the named files or file hierarchies were removed,
or if the
.Fl f
option was specified and all of the existing files or file hierarchies were
removed.
If an error occurs,
-.Nm rm
+.Nm
exits with a value >0.
.Sh NOTE
The
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ In addition, only regular files are overwritten, other types of files
are not.
.Sh COMPATIBILITY
The
-.Nm rm
+.Nm
utility differs from historical implementations in that the
.Fl f
option only masks attempts to remove non-existent files instead of
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ implementations prompted on the standard output,
not the standard error output.
.Sh STANDARDS
The
-.Nm rm
+.Nm
command is expected to be
.St -p1003.2
compatible.
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