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.\" $FreeBSD$ 34.\" 35.Dd June 4, 1993 36.Dt REMOVE 3 37.Os 38.Sh NAME 39.Nm remove 40.Nd remove directory entry 41.Sh LIBRARY 42.Lb libc 43.Sh SYNOPSIS 44.In stdio.h 45.Ft int 46.Fn remove "const char *path" 47.Sh DESCRIPTION 48The 49.Fn remove 50function removes the file or directory specified by 51.Fa path . 52.Pp 53If 54.Fa path 55specifies a directory, 56.Fn remove "path" 57is the equivalent of 58.Fn rmdir "path" . 59Otherwise, it is the equivalent of 60.Fn unlink "path" . 61.Sh RETURN VALUES 62.Rv -std remove 63.Sh ERRORS 64The 65.Fn remove 66function 67may fail and set 68.Va errno 69for any of the errors specified for the routines 70.Xr lstat 2 , 71.Xr rmdir 2 72or 73.Xr unlink 2 . 74.Sh SEE ALSO 75.Xr rmdir 2 , 76.Xr unlink 2 77.Sh STANDARDS 78The 79.Fn remove 80function conforms to 81.St -isoC 82and 83.St -xpg4.2 . 84