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If you're not sure, use the midnight commander (mc) . It provides a nice, norton commander alike interface for handling files and directories (and much more).
Marlor, I don't mean to be rude, but some of the questions you've been asking are pretty basic. You should really try to use the search feature here in the forum before posting a question. That helps you and it helps the forum because you don't have to wait for an answer, and because the forum doesn't get clogged up with the same questions being repeated.
It is also helpful to post your questions in an appropriate forum. For example, this question really isn't Slackware-specific by any means, and would be far better suited to the Newbie forum.
Again, please don't be offended by these suggestions. I admire anyone who wants to learn, but I just wanted to point out some methods which could be more efficient and perhaps help you to be more self-sufficient.
Along with Cerbere's suggestions I recommend reading a book. You can find some excellent books online for instance: http://www.hackersplayground.org/books.html#linux The one that helped me a lot was Linux in 24 Hours. It's a bit Red Hatish but it's still an excellent book.
Ok I understand how rmdir is supposed to work but!... it doesnt work that way for me. If I try to use the -rf switch with rmdir it says that -r is an invalid option. I am using slackware 10 and the man page mentions a switch called --ignore-fail-on-non-empty. WTF kind of switch is that? I dont understand why normal switches aren't even listed in the man page. Do I have some wacky version of rmdir installed? Totally lost here...
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