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10 ‘rm’ command examples for beginners

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Pradeep Kumar
Mar 30, 2016

rm stands for remove as the name suggests rm command is used to delete or remove files and directory in UNIX like operating system. If you are new to Linux then you should be very careful while running rm command because once you delete the files then you can not recover the contents of files and directory.
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