e2rm(1)

removes files and directories on an ext2 filesystem

Section 1 e2tools bookworm source

Description

E2RM

NAME

e2rm - removes files and directories on an ext2 filesystem

SYNOPSIS

e2rm [options] files...

DESCRIPTION

The e2rm command removes files and directories on an ext2 filesystem.

OPTIONS

-r

Recursively delete files if a directory name is given.

-v

Be verbose.

Note

This program expects to have a full ext2 file specification for each argument.

EXAMPLES

Remove a file

e2rm -v boot.img:/boot/grub/grub.c1 /boot/grub/grub.c2

Remove a directory and all the files

e2rm -r boot.img:/boot/grub

SEE ALSO

e2tools(7), e2ln(1), e2ls(1), e2mkdir(1), e2cp(1), e2mv(1), e2tail(1).

AUTHOR

The e2tools were written by Keith Sheffield <sheff@pobox.com>.

This manual page was written by Lucas Wall <lwall@debian.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).