Deleting folders and files from a directory

Question

How do you delete all folders and files in a directory and subdirectory?

Solution

This command will remove directory and sub-directories

  rm -r directory_name

This command will remove forcely

  rm -rf directory_name

This command will remove the empty directory

  rmdir directory_name

Comments

[Radu Rădeanu]

-f option is not necessary.

[Qwintus]

Ok I just looked that up, you're right. Thanks for the correction.