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NAME

dosrm, dosrmdir — remove DOS files or directories

SYNOPSIS

dosrm [-friu] device:file ...

dosrmdir [-u] device:file ...

DESCRIPTION

dosrm and dosrmdir are DOS counterparts of rm and rmdir (see rm(1) and rmdir(1), respectively).

dosrm removes the entries for one or more files from a directory. If a specified file is a directory, an error message is printed unless the optional argument -r is specified (see below).

dosrmdir removes entries for the named directories, provided they are empty.

Options

dosrm and dosrmdir recognize the following options:

-f

(force) Unconditionally remove the specified file, even if the file is marked read-only.

-r

Cause dosrm to recursively delete the entire contents of a directory, followed by the directory itself. dosrm can recursively delete up to 17 levels of directories.

-i

(interactive) Cause dosrm to ask whether or not to delete each file. If -r is also specified, dosrm asks whether to examine each directory encountered.

-u

Disable argument case conversion. In the absence of this option, all DOS file names are converted to uppercase.

A DOS file name is recognized by the presence of an embedded colon (:) delimiter; see dosif(4) for DOS file naming conventions.

Metacharacters *, ?, and [ ... ] can be used when specifying DOS file names. These must be quoted when specifying a DOS file name, because file name expansion must be performed by the DOS utilities, not by the shell. DOS utilities expand file names as described in regexp(5) under PATTERN MATCHING NOTATION.

EXAMPLES

These examples assume that a DOS directory structure exists on the device accessed through the HP-UX special file /dev/rfd9122.

Recursively comb through the DOS directory /tmp and ask if each DOS file should be removed forcibly (that is, with no file mode checks):

dosrm -irf /dev/rfd9122:/tmp

Remove the DOS directory doug from the DOS volume stored as HP-UX file hard_disk:

dosrmdir hard_disk:doug

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