Question

If we wish to delete a remove a file forcefully, we can use ____ option with rm command.

(a) -i

(b) -r

(c) -R

(d) -f

This question was posed to me in a job interview.

My enquiry is from Deleting and Renaming files: rm and mv Command topic in chapter Handling Ordinary Files of Unix

Answer 1

The correct option is (d) -f

The best I can explain: If a file is write-protected, we can remove it forcefully using -f option of rm command. For example,