How do I remove a file?

But what if I created something and I didn’t want it any more, I want to remove it from my file system and never, EVER, be able to retrieve it again, ever. The command to remove something from you file system is rm. For example, we can delete the test file we renamed,

kgoebber@bergeron:~> rm <filename>

Be very, very careful with remove as you will NOT be able to recover any file you remove!