The 'rm' command removes file in Linux.

The 'rmdir' command removes folders in Linux.

I want to know the command which removes folders which are full of files.

How do I remove a folder which has a lot of files and folders?

Because 'rmdir' command complains about the folders which contain files. Then I have to remove those files one by one. That is a tall order.

Your help is appreciated.

man rm. Read about recusion.

Thanks Proud
It doesn't tell me how to me remove the directories.
The following information is useless.
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DESCRIPTION
Remove the DIRECTORY(ies), if they are empty.

--ignore-fail-on-non-empty

ignore each failure that is solely because a directory is non-
empty

-p, --parents
remove DIRECTORY, then try to remove each directory component of
that path name. E.g., `rmdir -p a/b/c' is similar to `rmdir
a/b/c a/b a'.

-v, --verbose
output a diagnostic for every directory processed

--help display this help and exit

--version
output version information and exit

AUTHOR
Written by David MacKenzie.

I was sure rm -rf will delete a directory and all its contents.

If you want to use rmdir, surely that --ignore-fail-on-non-empty flag would help?

Hi,
[EDIT] I was late I may be wrong but I think that rm -r somedirectory _sometimes_ leaves somedirectory untouched? Seems weird but I think something like that happened to me once or twice.

a.malich

rm -Rf dirname

Thanks everybody for helping me.

rm -Rf name_of_the_directory. [ This worked fine.]

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