Removing files with rm
You can easily—perhaps too easily—remove (delete) files from your UNIX system. As Murphy will tell you, it's a good idea to think twice before doing this; once you remove a file, it's gone (unless, of course, you plead with your system administrator to restore it from a backup tape—but that's another story...). At any rate, it's permanent, unlike deletions in Windows 98 or the Macintosh OS, where the Recycle Bin or Trash Can give you a second chance.
You remove files using rm, as shown in Code Listing 2.9. And, as you'll see in the following steps, you can remove files one at a time or several at a time.
To remove a file:
1. | ls -l |
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