Does anyone knows what "rimraf" means?

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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

This is just a guess, but I would say that it is a way to pronounce the command rm -rf (remove, recursive, force removal).

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.

isaacs: It's how I pronounce rm -rf

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

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.