If you are a newbie to Ubuntu like me (or any other Unix distro) and you tried deleting a folder which is not empty contains files or subdirectories then you get the annoying error “Directory not empty”.
To delete such a folder (from a terminal) use the rm -rf command. For example to delete a folder called amitbahree run the following:
rm -rf amitbahree/
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April 6th, 2010 10:29 pm
Lyle made a good point that this will follow symbolic links and delete those as well.
April 10th, 2010 10:40 am
WARNING! You might want to create an alias for ‘rm -rf /’ to something innocuous like ‘ls -l /’ – it is extremely rare that you’d want to actually delete your root folder.
Please don’t ask me how I know this, just trust me.
April 10th, 2010 11:02 am
Well if someone does end up deleting the root folder, they probably deserve the outcome.