diff --git a/bin/run-rat.sh b/bin/run-rat.sh
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index 1b7bc312e8b..00000000000
--- a/bin/run-rat.sh
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@@ -1,35 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
-# contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
-# this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
-# The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
-# (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
-# the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-#
-#    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-# limitations under the License.
-
-base_dir=$(dirname $0)/..
-rat_excludes_file=$base_dir/.rat-excludes
-
-if [ -z "$JAVA_HOME" ]; then
-  JAVA="java"
-else
-  JAVA="$JAVA_HOME/bin/java"
-fi
-
-rat_command="$JAVA -jar $base_dir/lib/apache-rat-0.8.jar --dir $base_dir "
-
-for f in $(cat $rat_excludes_file);
-do
-  rat_command="${rat_command} -e $f"  
-done
-
-echo "Running " $rat_command
-$rat_command > $base_dir/rat.out
-