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dosrm -- Command
Remove a file from an MS-DOS file system
dosrm device:[/directory/]file
dosrm removes file from directory on an MS-DOS file system. device names
the floppy-disk or hard-disk device that holds the file system to be
modified, e.g., /dev/fha0. You can also build a file of aliases so that you
can access the drives as a, b, etc. For details, see the Lexicon entry for
doscp, which explains how to set up defaults for the dos family of
commands.
Example
The following deletes all .c files on an MS-DOS disk. It assumes that you
have defined b to be a device on which you have set an MS-DOS file system:
dosrm 'b:*.c'
Files
/etc/default/msdos -- Setup file
See Also
commands,
dos,
dosrmdir,
rm
Notes
dosrm does not understand compressed MS-DOS file systems created by
programs such as Stacker or MS-DOS 6.0 dblspace.









