<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <!-- for emacs: -*- coding: utf-8 -*- --> <!-- Apache may like this line in the file .htaccess: AddCharset utf-8 .html --> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1 plus MathML 2.0 plus SVG 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/2002/04/xhtml-math-svg/xhtml-math-svg-flat.dtd" > <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en"> <head><title>removeFile -- remove a file</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../../../Macaulay2/Style/doc.css"/> </head> <body> <table class="buttons"> <tr> <td><div><a href="_find__Files.html">next</a> | <a href="_move__File_lp__String_cm__String_rp.html">previous</a> | <a href="_find__Files.html">forward</a> | <a href="_move__File_lp__String_cm__String_rp.html">backward</a> | <a href="_file_spmanipulation.html">up</a> | <a href="index.html">top</a> | <a href="master.html">index</a> | <a href="toc.html">toc</a> | <a href="http://www.math.uiuc.edu/Macaulay2/">Macaulay2 web site</a></div> </td> </tr> </table> <div><a href="index.html" title="">Macaulay2Doc</a> > <a href="___The_sp__Macaulay2_splanguage.html" title="">The Macaulay2 language</a> > <a href="_file_spmanipulation.html" title="Unix file manipulation functions">file manipulation</a> > <a href="_remove__File.html" title="remove a file">removeFile</a></div> <hr/> <div><h1>removeFile -- remove a file</h1> <div class="single"><h2>Synopsis</h2> <ul><li><div class="list"><dl class="element"><dt class="heading">Usage: </dt><dd class="value"><div><tt>removeFile f</tt></div> </dd></dl> </div> </li> <li><div class="single">Inputs:<ul><li><span><tt>f</tt>, <span>a <a href="___String.html">string</a></span></span></li> </ul> </div> </li> <li><div class="single">Consequences:<ul><li>the file reachable by the path <tt>f</tt> is removed</li> </ul> </div> </li> </ul> </div> <div class="single"><h2>Description</h2> <div><p>Under a unix system such as GNU/Linux, what really happens is that the link to the file specified by <tt>f</tt> is removed. The file itself disappears after all the links to it are removed. See <a href="_link__File_lp__String_cm__String_rp.html" title="make a new link to a file">linkFile</a>.</p> </div> </div> </div> </body> </html>