Does anyone knows what "rimraf" means?

Question

Ok for the recursive options when deleting files, but what is rimraf? Is it an acronym? Does it come from words combination?

The word is fairly pleasant, I would like to know where does it come from.

Answer 1

It is a way to pronounce the command rm -rf (remove, recursive, force removal).

Answer 2

isaacs: It's how I pronounce rm -rf

from https://github.com/isaacs/rimraf/issues/175

Answer 3

Rimraf

The UNIX command rm -rf for Node.js

Deep deletion (like rm -rf) module for Node.js that provides asynchronous deep- deletion of files and directories.

The rimraf executable is a faster alternative to the rm -rf shell command.

(rm stands for remove, rf stands for recursive force.)

Source :

• https://github.com/isaacs/rimraf
• https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Rimraf

Answer 4

Like others have said, it's based on rm -rf. However, I think pronunciation sounds like it may come from the term riffraff, or perhaps even the rapper Riff Raff (just kidding).

And I say this as a possible explanation for the added "i" and "a" in "rimraf" since that coincides with the word riffraff.

Answer 5

rimraf is an executable that is used to clean the installed node packages in a node based project. It basically executes the rm -rf command on the node_modules directory, but is a faster alternative.