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ipcrm command in Linux with examples

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ipcrm command in Linux is used to remove some IPC(Inter-Process Communication) resources. It eliminates the IPC objects and their associated data structure form the system. One must be a creator or superuser or the owner of the object in order to remove these objects. There are three types of System V IPC objects i.e. semaphores, shared memory, and message queues.

Note: When all the currently attached processes will remove the object from their virtual address space then only shared memory object can be removed.

Syntax:

ipcrm [options]

or

ipcrm {shm|msg|sem} id...

Options:

  • -a, –all [shm] [msg] [sem] : Remove all resources. When an option argument is provided, the removal is performed only for the specified resource types.
  • -M, –shmem-key shmkey : Remove the shared memory segment created with shmkey after the last detach is performed.
  • -m, –shmem-id shmid : Remove the shared memory segment identified by shmid after the last detach is performed.
  • -Q, –queue-key msgkey : Remove the message queue created with msgkey.
  • -q, –queue-id msgid : Remove the message queue identified by msgid.
  • -S, –semaphore-key semkey : Remove the semaphore created with semkey.
  • -s, –semaphore-id semid : Remove the semaphore identified by semid.
  • -V, –version : Display version information and exit.

  • -h, –help : Display help text and exit.


Last Updated : 22 May, 2019
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