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From: ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: rm (remove) command
Message-ID: <4781@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au>
Date: 18 Feb 91 07:56:09 GMT
References: <1991Feb16.192418.2361@wpi.WPI.EDU>
Organization: Comp Sci, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
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In article <1991Feb16.192418.2361@wpi.WPI.EDU>, jhall@wpi.WPI.EDU (John Clinton Hall) writes:
> Where can I get the C source to rm (remove)?

For which operating system?  (There _is_ more than one possible answer.)

main(argc, argv) int argc; char **argv; { extern int unlink();
while (*++argv) if (unlink(*argv)) { perror(*argv); exit(1); } exit(0); }

The rest is frills and error reporting.
(See rmdir(), readdir(), and getopt()).

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