1.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1991, 1993 2.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by 5.\" Chris Torek and the American National Standards Committee X3, 6.\" on Information Processing Systems. 7.\" 8.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 9.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 10.\" are met: 11.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 12.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 13.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 14.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 15.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 16.\" 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 17.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 18.\" without specific prior written permission. 19.\" 20.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 21.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 22.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 23.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 24.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 25.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 26.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 27.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 28.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 29.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 30.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 31.\" 32.Dd June 4, 1993 33.Dt REMOVE 3 34.Os 35.Sh NAME 36.Nm remove 37.Nd remove directory entry 38.Sh LIBRARY 39.Lb libc 40.Sh SYNOPSIS 41.In stdio.h 42.Ft int 43.Fn remove "const char *path" 44.Sh DESCRIPTION 45The 46.Fn remove 47function removes the file or directory specified by 48.Fa path . 49.Pp 50If 51.Fa path 52specifies a directory, 53.Fn remove "path" 54is the equivalent of 55.Fn rmdir "path" . 56Otherwise, it is the equivalent of 57.Fn unlink "path" . 58.Sh RETURN VALUES 59.Rv -std remove 60.Sh ERRORS 61The 62.Fn remove 63function 64may fail and set 65.Va errno 66for any of the errors specified for the routines 67.Xr lstat 2 , 68.Xr rmdir 2 69or 70.Xr unlink 2 . 71.Sh SEE ALSO 72.Xr rmdir 2 , 73.Xr unlink 2 74.Sh STANDARDS 75The 76.Fn remove 77function conforms to 78.St -isoC 79and 80.St -xpg4.2 . 81