Home / ubuntu / Questions / 519424
Accepted
A Umar Mukthar
Asked: 2014-09-03 19:48:26 +0800 CST

problem with deleting a directory and subdirectory

  • 772
root@Umar:/home/umar# rmdir /usr/local/Reliance_Netconnect
rmdir: failed to remove ‘/usr/local/Reliance_Netconnect’: Directory not empty
directory

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    To delete a directory that is not empty, you need to use rm -rf.

    This is basic linux, and so is using sudo instead of a root account; you're setting yourself up for disaster. Be careful.

    • 2

  2. You must have an empty directory for rmdir to work.

    The typical way to recursively delete a directory and all of it's contents is with the rm -r command where the -r is short for recursive.

    • 1