rm command in Linux

The rm command is used to delete files and directories in Linux. In this article we have covered commonly used commands and options used with rm to achieve its goal.

Table of contents.Introduction.Deleting files.Deleting directories.Summary.References.Introduction.

The rm command is used to delete files and directories in Linux. It does this by unlinking data from the file name so that the user can overwrite on the storage space it is stored in.

Syntax.

The syntax is as follows,

rm [OPTI...