1.\" $NetBSD: remove.3,v 1.12 2003/08/07 16:43:30 agc Exp $ 2.\" 3.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1991, 1993 4.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 5.\" 6.\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by 7.\" Chris Torek and the American National Standards Committee X3, 8.\" on Information Processing Systems. 9.\" 10.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 11.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 12.\" are met: 13.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 14.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 15.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 16.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 17.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 18.\" 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 19.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 20.\" without specific prior written permission. 21.\" 22.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 23.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 24.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 25.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 26.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 27.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 28.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 29.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 30.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 31.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 32.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 33.\" 34.\" @(#)remove.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93 35.\" 36.Dd June 4, 1993 37.Dt REMOVE 3 38.Os 39.Sh NAME 40.Nm remove 41.Nd remove directory entry 42.Sh LIBRARY 43.Lb libc 44.Sh SYNOPSIS 45.In stdio.h 46.Ft int 47.Fn remove "const char *path" 48.Sh DESCRIPTION 49The 50.Fn remove 51function removes the file or directory specified by 52.Fa path . 53.Pp 54If 55.Fa path 56specifies a directory, 57.Fn remove "path" 58is the equivalent of 59.Fn rmdir "path" . 60Otherwise, it is the equivalent of 61.Fn unlink "path" . 62.Sh RETURN VALUES 63Upon successful completion, 64.Fn remove 65returns 0. 66Otherwise, \-1 is returned and the global variable 67.Va errno 68is set to indicate the error. 69.Sh ERRORS 70The 71.Fn remove 72function 73may fail and set 74.Va errno 75for any of the errors specified for the routines 76.Xr rmdir 2 77or 78.Xr unlink 2 . 79.Sh SEE ALSO 80.Xr rmdir 2 , 81.Xr unlink 2 , 82.Xr symlink 7 83.Sh STANDARDS 84The 85.Fn remove 86function conforms to 87.St -ansiC . 88