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authorJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2001-04-29 07:01:12 +0000
committerJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2001-04-29 07:01:12 +0000
commit56ee0fa63685708eb4fa59869fa9083064a42d06 (patch)
tree759dc53e579c2a7af776616b9d9d1ed39f79a854 /man
parentb8926b07cc8a4dd956dcdcee63b6fafa01445e22 (diff)
downloadcoreutils-56ee0fa63685708eb4fa59869fa9083064a42d06.tar.xz
Refer to shred.
Remove the example showing how to remove `-foo', since that is now in the --help output (and hence automatically included).
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diff --git a/man/rm.x b/man/rm.x
index 7faf6f90e..fd93b3be6 100644
--- a/man/rm.x
+++ b/man/rm.x
@@ -13,24 +13,6 @@ the \fI\-f\fR or \fI\-\-force\fR option is not given,
.B rm
prompts the user for whether to remove the file. If the response
does not begin with `y' or `Y', the file is skipped.
-.LP
-GNU
-.BR rm ,
-like every program that uses the getopt function to parse its
-arguments, lets you use the
-.I \-\-
-option to indicate that all following arguments are non-options. To
-remove a file called `\-f' in the current directory, you could type
-either
-.RS
-rm \-\- \-f
-.RE
-or
-.RS
-rm ./\-f
-.RE
-The Unix
-.B rm
-program's use of a single `\-' for this purpose predates the
-development of the getopt standard syntax.
.SH OPTIONS
+[SEE ALSO]
+shred(1)