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RMF(1)			    General Commands Manual			RMF(1)

NAME
       rmf - remove an nmh folder

SYNOPSIS

       rmf [-help] [-version] [+folder]	[-interactive |	-nointeractive]

DESCRIPTION
       rmf  removes  all  of the messages (files) within the specified (or de-
       fault) folder, and then removes the folder (directory) itself.

       If there	are any	files within the folder	which are not a	part  of  nmh,
       they will not be	removed, and an	error will be produced.	 If the	folder
       is  given  explicitly,  or the -nointeractive option is given, then the
       folder will be removed without confirmation.  Otherwise,	the user  will
       be  asked  for  confirmation.   If rmf can't, for some reason, find the
       current folder the folder to be removed defaults	 to  `+inbox'  (unless
       overridden by the user's	profile	entry "Inbox"),	with confirmation.

       If  the folder being removed is a subfolder, the	parent folder will be-
       come the	new current folder, and	rmf will produce a message telling the
       user this has happened.	This provides an easy mechanism	for  selecting
       a  set  of  messages, operating on the list, then removing the list and
       returning to the	current	folder,	from which the list was	extracted.

       If rmf is used on a read-only folder, it	will delete  all  the  private
       sequences (i.e.,	.RI "atr- seq -	folder " entries) for this folder from
       your context without affecting the folder itself.

       rmf  irreversibly  deletes messages that	don't have other links,	so use
       it with caution.

FILES
       $HOME/.mh_profile		    The	user profile

PROFILE	COMPONENTS
       Path:		    To determine the user's nmh	directory
       Current-Folder:	    To find the	default	current	folder
       Inbox:		    To find the	default	inbox

SEE ALSO
       folder(1), rmm(1)

DEFAULTS
       `+folder' defaults to the current folder, usually with confirmation
       `-interactive' if +folder' not given, `-nointeractive' otherwise

CONTEXT
       rmf will	set the	current	folder to the parent folder if a subfolder  is
       removed;	or if the current folder is removed, it	will make "inbox" cur-
       rent.  Otherwise, it doesn't change the current folder or message.

BUGS
       Although	 intuitively  one would	suspect	that rmf works recursively, it
       does not.  Hence, if you	have a sub-folder within a folder, in order to
       rmf the parent, you must	first rmf each of the children.

nmh-1.8+dev			  1999-04-30				RMF(1)

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