What Command will remove a Directory in UNIX?
- 8 Answers
- 18428 Views
- IBM, I also Faced
- E-Mail Answers
Answers were Sorted based on User's Feedback
Answer / ziauddin
rmdir directoryname
note the directory must be empty
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 27 Yes | 3 No |
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)
J. Sambasivarao
91+ 9948280248
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 24 Yes | 0 No |
for removing directory
rm -rf *
for all dir
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 19 Yes | 3 No |
Answer / swathi
$rm -r dir1
-r removes all contents of dir1 and also dir1 itself.
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 16 Yes | 1 No |
Answer / khemnath chauhan
$rmdir <dirname>
will remove the diretory.
$rmdir -i <dirname>
will remove interactively
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 12 Yes | 0 No |
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.
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 0 Yes | 0 No |
Answer / suryakanta
rm-rf directoryname
this will remove the directory forcefully from unix.
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 0 Yes | 0 No |
What is the behavioural difference between cmp and diff commands?
what is the shell for dos,nt operating systems?
What command will change your prompt to myprompt?
Why is it called a shebang?
what is the difference between pipe(|) and tee command..
What is the different between UNIX command and UNIX shell script?
What Command will remove a Directory in UNIX?
write grep commands to select the lines that have exactly two characters
what is the command to list all files in a directory, including the hidden files in UNIX ?
how many types of file in unix?
34 Answers MNC, TCS,
Write a command to kill the last background job?
Give two UNIX kernel parameters that effect an Oracle install
Unix Commands 
