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September 26th, 2006 mysurface Posted in Common, Misc, rm, rmdir | Hits: 4217 |

rmdir is like a reverse of mkdir, it removes the empty directory.

To remove an empty directory call hello, just

rmdir hello

And you can remove parent directory as well like

rmdir -p lvl1/lvl2/hello

It will removes the directory lvl1 then sub dir lvl2 and sub sub dir hello

But to use rmdir, the directory MUST be empty. So I found it useless, i can remove empty directory by using

rm -rf hello
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One Response to “remove directory”

  1. ash Says:
    November 30th, 2007 at 8:18 am

    thanks it was really helpful

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