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1 /* 'rm' file deletion utility for GNU.
2 Copyright (C) 1988-2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
4 This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
5 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
6 the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
7 (at your option) any later version.
9 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
10 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
11 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
12 GNU General Public License for more details.
14 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
15 along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
17 /* Initially written by Paul Rubin, David MacKenzie, and Richard Stallman.
18 Reworked to use chdir and avoid recursion, and later, rewritten
19 once again, to use fts, by Jim Meyering. */
21 #include <config.h>
22 #include <stdio.h>
23 #include <getopt.h>
24 #include <sys/types.h>
25 #include <assert.h>
27 #include "system.h"
28 #include "argmatch.h"
29 #include "error.h"
30 #include "quote.h"
31 #include "quotearg.h"
32 #include "remove.h"
33 #include "root-dev-ino.h"
34 #include "yesno.h"
35 #include "priv-set.h"
37 /* The official name of this program (e.g., no 'g' prefix). */
38 #define PROGRAM_NAME "rm"
40 #define AUTHORS \
41 proper_name ("Paul Rubin"), \
42 proper_name ("David MacKenzie"), \
43 proper_name ("Richard M. Stallman"), \
44 proper_name ("Jim Meyering")
46 /* For long options that have no equivalent short option, use a
47 non-character as a pseudo short option, starting with CHAR_MAX + 1. */
48 enum
50 INTERACTIVE_OPTION = CHAR_MAX + 1,
51 ONE_FILE_SYSTEM,
52 NO_PRESERVE_ROOT,
53 PRESERVE_ROOT,
54 PRESUME_INPUT_TTY_OPTION
57 enum interactive_type
59 interactive_never, /* 0: no option or --interactive=never */
60 interactive_once, /* 1: -I or --interactive=once */
61 interactive_always /* 2: default, -i or --interactive=always */
64 static struct option const long_opts[] =
66 {"force", no_argument, NULL, 'f'},
67 {"interactive", optional_argument, NULL, INTERACTIVE_OPTION},
69 {"one-file-system", no_argument, NULL, ONE_FILE_SYSTEM},
70 {"no-preserve-root", no_argument, NULL, NO_PRESERVE_ROOT},
71 {"preserve-root", no_argument, NULL, PRESERVE_ROOT},
73 /* This is solely for testing. Do not document. */
74 /* It is relatively difficult to ensure that there is a tty on stdin.
75 Since rm acts differently depending on that, without this option,
76 it'd be harder to test the parts of rm that depend on that setting. */
77 {"-presume-input-tty", no_argument, NULL, PRESUME_INPUT_TTY_OPTION},
79 {"recursive", no_argument, NULL, 'r'},
80 {"dir", no_argument, NULL, 'd'},
81 {"verbose", no_argument, NULL, 'v'},
82 {GETOPT_HELP_OPTION_DECL},
83 {GETOPT_VERSION_OPTION_DECL},
84 {NULL, 0, NULL, 0}
87 static char const *const interactive_args[] =
89 "never", "no", "none",
90 "once",
91 "always", "yes", NULL
93 static enum interactive_type const interactive_types[] =
95 interactive_never, interactive_never, interactive_never,
96 interactive_once,
97 interactive_always, interactive_always
99 ARGMATCH_VERIFY (interactive_args, interactive_types);
101 /* Advise the user about invalid usages like "rm -foo" if the file
102 "-foo" exists, assuming ARGC and ARGV are as with 'main'. */
104 static void
105 diagnose_leading_hyphen (int argc, char **argv)
107 /* OPTIND is unreliable, so iterate through the arguments looking
108 for a file name that looks like an option. */
109 int i;
111 for (i = 1; i < argc; i++)
113 char const *arg = argv[i];
114 struct stat st;
116 if (arg[0] == '-' && arg[1] && lstat (arg, &st) == 0)
118 fprintf (stderr,
119 _("Try '%s ./%s' to remove the file %s.\n"),
120 argv[0],
121 quotearg_n_style (1, shell_quoting_style, arg),
122 quote (arg));
123 break;
128 void
129 usage (int status)
131 if (status != EXIT_SUCCESS)
132 emit_try_help ();
133 else
135 printf (_("Usage: %s [OPTION]... FILE...\n"), program_name);
136 fputs (_("\
137 Remove (unlink) the FILE(s).\n\
139 -f, --force ignore nonexistent files and arguments, never prompt\n\
140 -i prompt before every removal\n\
141 "), stdout);
142 fputs (_("\
143 -I prompt once before removing more than three files, or\n\
144 when removing recursively; less intrusive than -i,\n\
145 while still giving protection against most mistakes\n\
146 --interactive[=WHEN] prompt according to WHEN: never, once (-I), or\n\
147 always (-i); without WHEN, prompt always\n\
148 "), stdout);
149 fputs (_("\
150 --one-file-system when removing a hierarchy recursively, skip any\n\
151 directory that is on a file system different from\n\
152 that of the corresponding command line argument\n\
153 "), stdout);
154 fputs (_("\
155 --no-preserve-root do not treat '/' specially\n\
156 --preserve-root do not remove '/' (default)\n\
157 -r, -R, --recursive remove directories and their contents recursively\n\
158 -d, --dir remove empty directories\n\
159 -v, --verbose explain what is being done\n\
160 "), stdout);
161 fputs (HELP_OPTION_DESCRIPTION, stdout);
162 fputs (VERSION_OPTION_DESCRIPTION, stdout);
163 fputs (_("\
165 By default, rm does not remove directories. Use the --recursive (-r or -R)\n\
166 option to remove each listed directory, too, along with all of its contents.\n\
167 "), stdout);
168 printf (_("\
170 To remove a file whose name starts with a '-', for example '-foo',\n\
171 use one of these commands:\n\
172 %s -- -foo\n\
174 %s ./-foo\n\
176 program_name, program_name);
177 fputs (_("\
179 Note that if you use rm to remove a file, it might be possible to recover\n\
180 some of its contents, given sufficient expertise and/or time. For greater\n\
181 assurance that the contents are truly unrecoverable, consider using shred.\n\
182 "), stdout);
183 emit_ancillary_info ();
185 exit (status);
188 static void
189 rm_option_init (struct rm_options *x)
191 x->ignore_missing_files = false;
192 x->interactive = RMI_SOMETIMES;
193 x->one_file_system = false;
194 x->remove_empty_directories = false;
195 x->recursive = false;
196 x->root_dev_ino = NULL;
197 x->stdin_tty = isatty (STDIN_FILENO);
198 x->verbose = false;
200 /* Since this program exits immediately after calling 'rm', rm need not
201 expend unnecessary effort to preserve the initial working directory. */
202 x->require_restore_cwd = false;
206 main (int argc, char **argv)
208 bool preserve_root = true;
209 struct rm_options x;
210 bool prompt_once = false;
211 int c;
213 initialize_main (&argc, &argv);
214 set_program_name (argv[0]);
215 setlocale (LC_ALL, "");
216 bindtextdomain (PACKAGE, LOCALEDIR);
217 textdomain (PACKAGE);
219 atexit (close_stdin);
221 rm_option_init (&x);
223 /* Try to disable the ability to unlink a directory. */
224 priv_set_remove_linkdir ();
226 while ((c = getopt_long (argc, argv, "dfirvIR", long_opts, NULL)) != -1)
228 switch (c)
230 case 'd':
231 x.remove_empty_directories = true;
232 break;
234 case 'f':
235 x.interactive = RMI_NEVER;
236 x.ignore_missing_files = true;
237 prompt_once = false;
238 break;
240 case 'i':
241 x.interactive = RMI_ALWAYS;
242 x.ignore_missing_files = false;
243 prompt_once = false;
244 break;
246 case 'I':
247 x.interactive = RMI_NEVER;
248 x.ignore_missing_files = false;
249 prompt_once = true;
250 break;
252 case 'r':
253 case 'R':
254 x.recursive = true;
255 break;
257 case INTERACTIVE_OPTION:
259 int i;
260 if (optarg)
261 i = XARGMATCH ("--interactive", optarg, interactive_args,
262 interactive_types);
263 else
264 i = interactive_always;
265 switch (i)
267 case interactive_never:
268 x.interactive = RMI_NEVER;
269 prompt_once = false;
270 break;
272 case interactive_once:
273 x.interactive = RMI_SOMETIMES;
274 x.ignore_missing_files = false;
275 prompt_once = true;
276 break;
278 case interactive_always:
279 x.interactive = RMI_ALWAYS;
280 x.ignore_missing_files = false;
281 prompt_once = false;
282 break;
284 break;
287 case ONE_FILE_SYSTEM:
288 x.one_file_system = true;
289 break;
291 case NO_PRESERVE_ROOT:
292 preserve_root = false;
293 break;
295 case PRESERVE_ROOT:
296 preserve_root = true;
297 break;
299 case PRESUME_INPUT_TTY_OPTION:
300 x.stdin_tty = true;
301 break;
303 case 'v':
304 x.verbose = true;
305 break;
307 case_GETOPT_HELP_CHAR;
308 case_GETOPT_VERSION_CHAR (PROGRAM_NAME, AUTHORS);
309 default:
310 diagnose_leading_hyphen (argc, argv);
311 usage (EXIT_FAILURE);
315 if (argc <= optind)
317 if (x.ignore_missing_files)
318 exit (EXIT_SUCCESS);
319 else
321 error (0, 0, _("missing operand"));
322 usage (EXIT_FAILURE);
326 if (x.recursive && preserve_root)
328 static struct dev_ino dev_ino_buf;
329 x.root_dev_ino = get_root_dev_ino (&dev_ino_buf);
330 if (x.root_dev_ino == NULL)
331 error (EXIT_FAILURE, errno, _("failed to get attributes of %s"),
332 quote ("/"));
335 size_t n_files = argc - optind;
336 char **file = argv + optind;
338 if (prompt_once && (x.recursive || 3 < n_files))
340 fprintf (stderr,
341 (x.recursive
342 ? ngettext ("%s: remove %zu argument recursively? ",
343 "%s: remove %zu arguments recursively? ",
344 select_plural (n_files))
345 : ngettext ("%s: remove %zu argument? ",
346 "%s: remove %zu arguments? ",
347 select_plural (n_files))),
348 program_name, n_files);
349 if (!yesno ())
350 exit (EXIT_SUCCESS);
353 enum RM_status status = rm (file, &x);
354 assert (VALID_STATUS (status));
355 exit (status == RM_ERROR ? EXIT_FAILURE : EXIT_SUCCESS);