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dosrm(1) dosrm(1)
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NAME
dosrm, dosrmdir - remove DOS files or directories
SYNOPSIS
dosrm [-fmriu] device :file ...
dosrmdir [-mu] device :file ...
DESCRIPTION
The
dosrm and dosrmdir commands are targeted for removal from HP-UX; see the WARNINGS
below.
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 direc-
tory 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.
-m If an ordinary file with the same name as volume label exists, operation will be performed on
the file instead of volume label.
-u Disable argument case conversion. In the absence of this option, all DOS file names are con-
verted 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.
WARNINGS
Use of
dosrm and dosrmdir is discouraged because they are targeted for removal from HP-UX.
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
SEE ALSO
dos2ux(1), doschmod(1), doscp(1), dosdf(1), dosls(1), dosmkdir(1), rm(1), rmdir(1), dosif(4).
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