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apple_rm - Do an apple remove, remove metadata and resource fork as well
/usr/bin/apple_rm FILE...
DESCRIPTION
apple_rm is a perl script that removes FILE(s) as well as the .AppleDouble metadata file(s) that corresponds to
FILE(s). These AppleDouble header files eventually also contain the resource fork if the files had one. apple_rm
does not delete directories.
EXAMPLES
/usr/bin/apple_rm test.text
/usr/bin/apple_rm test.text testing.text
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to the Netatalk-devel list <netatalk-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>.
RELATED
apple_cp(1), apple_mv(1).
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