bifrm(1) — Series 300/400 Only

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bifrm, bifrmdir − remove BIF files or directories

bifrm [−fri] device:file ...

bifrmdir device:dir ...

bifrm and bifrmdir are intended to mimic rm(1) and rmdir(1).

A BIF file name is recognized by the embedded colon (:) delimiter (see bif(4) for BIF file naming conventions).

bifrm removes the entries for one or more files from a directory. If an entry was the last link to the file, the file is destroyed.

If a designated file is a directory, an error comment is printed (unless the optional argument −r has been used, see below).

Recognized options are:

−f Remove file with no questions asked, even if the file has no write permission.

−r Recursively delete the entire contents of a directory, then the directory itself. bifrm can recursively delete up to 17 levels of directories.

−i Causes bifrm to ask whether or not to delete each file. If −r is also specified, bifrm asks whether to examine each directory encountered.

bifrmdir removes entries for the named directories, which must be empty.

The following examples assume that a BIF directory structure exists on the HP-UX device file /dev/rdsk/1s0.

Recursively comb through the BIF directory /tmp and ask if each BIF file should be removed (forced, with no file mode checks):

bifrm −irf /dev/rdsk/1s0:/tmp

Remove BIF directory /users/doug:

bifrmdir /dev/rdsk/1s0:/users/doug

bifrm was developed by HP.