-f

ignore nonexistent files and arguments, never prompt

-i

prompt before every removal

-I

prompt once before removing more than three files, or when removing recursively; less intrusive than

--interactive[

prompt according to WHEN: never, once (-I), or always (-i); without WHEN, prompt always

--one-file-system

when removing a hierarchy recursively, skip any directory that is on a file system different from thatof the corresponding command line argument

--no-preserve-root

do not treat '/' specially

--preserve-root

do not remove '/' (default)

-r

remove directories and their contents recursively

-d

remove empty directories

-v

explain what is being done

--help

display this help and exit

--version

output version information and exitBy default, rm does not remove directories. Use the --recursive (-r or -R) option to remove each listeddirectory, too, along with all of its contents.To remove a file whose name starts with a '-', for example '-foo', use one of these commands:rm -- -foorm ./-fooNote that if you use rm to remove a file, it might be possible to recover some of its contents, given suffi‐cient expertise and/or time. For greater assurance that the contents are truly unrecoverable, consider usingshred.AUTHORWritten by Paul Rubin, David MacKenzie, Richard M. Stallman, and Jim Meyering.REPORTING BUGSGNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>Report rm translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>COPYRIGHTCopyright © 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later<http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent per‐mitted by law.