Deleting files
■ rm
• Warning: will delete files permanently.
• rm a
• rm a b c
• rm dir/a dir/b
• rm *
• rmdir
• Invocation like rm
• Will remove empty directories only
• rm -r
• Will recursively remove a directory and everything in it
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