how do you delete a directory?

[Charles Crawford]

If you use rm -rf then you force deletion.  It's dangerous and should be 
used only if you really are serious and check the command line fully and 
understand what will be deleted before hitting that enter key.

At 10:36 AM 03/09/2004 -0600, you wrote:
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>On 03/09/04 11:40 AM -0500, cris wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> > This is too elementary for you, but a big deal for a nubie.  How do
> > you delete a directory if it has other subdirectories and files?
> > rmdir does not delete directories unless they are empty.
>
>Use "rm -r <dirname>" and try man rm for more options.
>
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