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.\" @(#)remove.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93 33.\" 34.Dd June 4, 1993 35.Dt REMOVE 3 36.Os 37.Sh NAME 38.Nm remove 39.Nd remove directory entry 40.Sh LIBRARY 41.Lb libc 42.Sh SYNOPSIS 43.In stdio.h 44.Ft int 45.Fn remove "const char *path" 46.Sh DESCRIPTION 47The 48.Fn remove 49function removes the file or directory specified by 50.Fa path . 51.Pp 52If 53.Fa path 54specifies a directory, 55.Fn remove "path" 56is the equivalent of 57.Fn rmdir "path" . 58Otherwise, it is the equivalent of 59.Fn unlink "path" . 60.Sh RETURN VALUES 61.Rv -std remove 62.Sh ERRORS 63The 64.Fn remove 65function 66may fail and set 67.Va errno 68for any of the errors specified for the routines 69.Xr lstat 2 , 70.Xr rmdir 2 71or 72.Xr unlink 2 . 73.Sh SEE ALSO 74.Xr rmdir 2 , 75.Xr unlink 2 76.Sh STANDARDS 77The 78.Fn remove 79function conforms to 80.St -isoC 81and 82.St -xpg4.2 . 83