Open System Services Shell and Utilities Reference Manual (G06.29+, H06.08+, J06.03+)

rm(1) OSS Shell and Utilities Reference Manual
sion for its parent directory, but you need neither read nor write permission for the file itself.
If a file has no write permission and standard input is a tty:
• If the system does not support OSS ACLs, the rm command displays the file permission
code and reads a line from standard input. If that line begins with y, or the locale’s
equivalent of a y, rm deletes the file. If the response is anything else, the rm command
does nothing to that file and continues with the next specified file.
• If the system supports OSS ACLs, the rm command displays the file name and the file
permissions and reads a line from standard input. If that line begins with y, or the
locale’s equivalent of a y, rm deletes the file. If the response is anything else, the rm
command does nothing to that file and continues with the next specified file.
If the -f option is used or the standard input is not a tty, rm does not display any prompts.
If the file has optional ACL entries, the rm command displays a plus sign (+) after the
file permissions. The permissions shown by the rm command summarize the st_mode
values returned
by the stat() function (see the stat(2) reference page). If you execute the rm command
remotely from a system that does not support OSS ACLs, rm does not display a plus sign
(+) for files that have optional ACLs.
For more information about ACLs, see the acl(5) reference page.
The -i flag causes rm to prompt and read the standard input even if the standard input is not a ter-
minal. In the absence of -i, however, rm does not prompt when the standard input is not a termi-
nal.
Environment Variables
The following environment variables affect the execution of the rm command:
LC_MESSAGES
Determines the locale’s equivalent of y or n (for yes/no queries).
UTILSGE Specifies that HP extensions to the root directory should be omitted when the ini-
tial directory is root and a recursive operation occurs in an OSS shell command.
Application programs that test this variable might also honor its settings.
The UTILSGE value can be any of the following:
NOE Omit the /E directory.
NOG Omit the /G directory.
NOG:NOE Omit both the /G and /E directories.
The effect of assigning a value to the
UTILSGE environment
variable is the
same as specifying the -W NOG or -W NOE flag in the command.
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