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remove – remove directory entry

LIBRARY SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION RETURN VALUES ERRORS SEE ALSO STANDARDS

Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

#include <stdio.h>

int
remove(const char *path);

The remove() function removes the file or directory specified by path.

If path specifies a directory, remove(path) is the equivalent of rmdir(path). Otherwise, it is the equivalent of unlink(path).

The remove function returns the value 0 if successful; otherwise the value -1 is returned and the global variable errno is set to indicate the error.

The remove() function conforms to ISO/IEC 9899:1990 ("ISO C90") and -xpg4.2.