How to delete a directory in the Linux terminal?

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by modesta , in category: General Help , a year ago

How to delete a directory in the Linux terminal?

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by jewel , a year ago

@modesta You can remove an empty directory using the ‘rmdir’ command. This will only remove an empty directory that does not contain any file within it. For example


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rmdir exampledir


If you want to remove a directory with files in it, you have to use rm -r. For example

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rm -r exampledir

This will remove all the sub-directories within a directory as well as all the files recursively.