deleting non-empty directories

[Luke Yelavich]

On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 02:37:05PM EST, Glenn at home wrote:
> I have been trying to remove some messed up directories in my ftp 
> directories.
> I have tried rmdir DirName
> and this does not work because they are not empty, and I cannot get into 
> them since their folder names are causing me problems.
> What is the command for deleting non-empty folders?

rm -r directory-name

Luke