Rm (Unix)

rm

The rm command
Original author(s)	Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie (AT&T Bell Laboratories)
Developer(s)	Various open-source and commercial developers
Initial release	November 3, 1971; 52 years ago (1971-11-03)
Written in	C
Operating system	Unix, Unix-like, V, Plan 9, Inferno, KolibriOS, IBM i
Platform	Cross-platform
Type	Command
License	coreutils: GPLv3+ Plan 9: MIT License

rm (short for remove) is a basic command on Unix and Unix-like operating systems used to remove objects such as computer files, directories and symbolic links from file systems and also special files such as device nodes, pipes and sockets, similar to the del command in MS-DOS, OS/2, and Microsoft Windows. The command is also available in the EFI shell.^[1]