Linux 101: How to delete files and folders from the CLI Your email has been sent When you’re using a GUI, deleting a file and/or a folder is as simple as right-clicking and selecting delete. But ...

However, because Assam2 contains files, I couldn't use these commands, and Linux returned the message cannot remove Assam2: Directory not empty. To remove a non-empty file, use the command rm -r .

How to Delete a Directory in Linux Let’s run through a similar example to show that rm can be used to delete a directory containing files. For these examples, we will use two extra arguments -r ...