Delete a folder including contents

[ashley75]

I know this is too easy for alot of people in here. But I like to find out what is the command to delete a folder including the contents???

thanks

 

[mithrilhall]

Try:

rmdir -vR

or

rm -vR

if the above one doesn't work.

 

[enigma174]

if you're deleting a folder with a lot of files inside it, you may want to use the -f (force) option to disable prompting, so your command would be:

rm -rf <foldername>

rm = remove

-r, -R, --recursive
remove the contents of directories _ recursively


-f, --force
ignore nonexistent files, never prompt

and from the last post:

-v, --verbose
explain what is being done

(this was taken directly from the man page &quot;man rm&quot

--cb

 

[KenCunningham]

But be careful when using any combination of rm -r that you're where you think you are in the system. I think we've all encountered this phenomenon before! Always issue a pwd before the rm, just to be sure. Cheers.