GFR

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From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  GFR /G-F-R/ vt. [ITS: from `Grim File Reaper', an ITS and LISP Machine
     utility] To remove a file or files according to some program-automated
     or semi-automatic manual procedure, especially one designed to reclaim
     mass storage space or reduce name-space clutter (the original GFR
     actually moved files to tape). Often generalized to pieces of data below
     file level. "I used to have his phone number, but I guess I {GFR}ed it."


     See also {prowler}, {reaper}. Compare {GC}, which discards only provably
     worthless stuff.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  GFR
       
          {Grim File Reaper}