Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index The rm command in the Unix operating system is used to remove files from the file system. It is similar to the del command in MS-DOS. Its usage is considered potentially more dangerous than equivalents in other operating systems because of the way Unix and Unix-like systems parse wildcards and names of special directories and in its non-verbose actions. However newer versions may prove to have protection against such accidents occurring. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.