Re: [cobalt-users] How to remove a directory

[Jonathan Nichols <jnichols@xxxxxxx>]

Michael Crick wrote:

> I have some directories that i would like to remove from my Linux 
> server.  The directories have files in them so when i use the rmdir 
> command it tells me that the directory is not empty.  I was wondering if 
> anyone knew what the command is to remove a directory without having to 
> first empty it as i have a large number to be removed and don't want to 
> have to slowly go through the directories one by one removing the files 
> first.  I also tried rmdir -r but that didn't work either.

It's "rm -rf directory/"