-.TH IMAGEX "1" "May 2013" "@IMAGEX_PROGNAME@ @VERSION@" "User Commands"
+.TH WIMLIB-IMAGEX "1" "August 2013" "@IMAGEX_PROGNAME@ @VERSION@" "User Commands"
.SH NAME
@IMAGEX_PROGNAME@-delete \- Delete an image from a WIM archive
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.SH SYNOPSIS
\fB@IMAGEX_PROGNAME@ delete\fR \fIWIMFILE\fR \fIIMAGE\fR [--check]
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.SH DESCRIPTION
-.PP
-
\fB@IMAGEX_PROGNAME@ delete\fR deletes the specified image from the Windows Imaging (WIM)
file \fIWIMFILE\fR.
-
-\fIIMAGE\fR specifies the WIM image to deleted. It may be a 1-based index of an
-image in the WIM, the name of an image in the WIM, or the keyword "all" to
-indicate that all images are to be deleted. Use the \fB@IMAGEX_PROGNAME@ info\fR (1)
-command to show what images a WIM file contains.
-
+This command is also available as simply \fBwimdelete\fR if the appropriate hard
+link or batch file has been installed.
+.PP
+\fIIMAGE\fR specifies the WIM image in \fIWIMFILE\fR to deleted. It may be a
+1-based index of an image in the WIM, the name of an image in the WIM, or the
+keyword "all" to indicate that all images are to be deleted. Use the
+\fB@IMAGEX_PROGNAME@ info\fR (1) command to show what images a WIM file
+contains.
.SH NOTES
-
By default, the WIM file is rebuilt with all unnecessary file data removed.
This is different from Microsoft's imagex.exe, which only will delete the
directory tree metadata and XML data for this operation. (See the \fB--soft\fR
option for the other kind of delete).
-
+.PP
Also, unlike Microsoft's imagex.exe, it is legal to delete all the images from a
WIM and have a WIM with 0 images, although such a file wouldn't be very useful.
-
+.PP
\fB@IMAGEX_PROGNAME@ delete\fR does not support split WIMs.
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.SH OPTIONS
.TP 6
\fB--check\fR
When reading \fIWIMFILE\fR, verify its integrity if the integrity table is
-present; additionally, when rewriting \fIWIMFILE\fR after the specified image was
-deleted, write an integrity table. If this option is not specified, no integrity
-table is included in the new WIM file, even if there was one before.
+present; additionally, when rewriting \fIWIMFILE\fR after the specified image
+was deleted, always write an integrity table. If this option is not specified,
+the integrity of \fIWIMFILE\fR will not be checked when it's opened, but an
+integrity table will be written in the updated WIM if and only if one was
+present before.
.TP 6
\fB--soft\fR
Perform a "soft delete". Specifying this flag overrides the default behavior of
rebuilding the entire WIM after deleting an image. Instead, only minimal
changes to correctly remove the image from the WIM will be taken. In
particular, all streams will be left alone, even if they are no longer
-referenced. This is probably not what you want, because almost no space will be
+referenced. This is probably not what you want, because no space will be
saved by deleting an image in this way.
-
+.IP ""
You may use \fB@IMAGEX_PROGNAME@ optimize\fR to delete unreferenced streams from a WIM that
has had images soft-deleted from it.
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.SH EXAMPLES
Delete the first image from 'boot.wim':
.RS
@IMAGEX_PROGNAME@ delete boot.wim 1
.RE
.PP
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.SH SEE ALSO
.BR @IMAGEX_PROGNAME@ (1)
.BR @IMAGEX_PROGNAME@-info (1)
.BR @IMAGEX_PROGNAME@-optimize (1)
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