What Command will remove a Directory in UNIX?
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Answer / ziauddin
rmdir directoryname
note the directory must be empty
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Answer / sambasivarao
This has two options
1) If directory is an empty directory
$rmdir <directory name>
2) If it is non-empty directory
$rm -rf <directory name>
-r means delete recursively
-f means delete forcibly.
It deletes your mentioned directory without informing
you that it is going to delete the whole directory (sub
directories and files in that directory)
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for removing directory
rm -rf *
for all dir
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Answer / swathi
$rm -r dir1
-r removes all contents of dir1 and also dir1 itself.
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Answer / khemnath chauhan
$rmdir <dirname>
will remove the diretory.
$rmdir -i <dirname>
will remove interactively
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Answer / brijmohan
rmdir is used.
we can also use rm -rf to remove directory recursively.
means it will first remove all files and folder from that
directory then it will remove current folder.
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Answer / suryakanta
rm-rf directoryname
this will remove the directory forcefully from unix.
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