root@Umar:/home/umar# rmdir /usr/local/Reliance_Netconnect
rmdir: failed to remove ‘/usr/local/Reliance_Netconnect’: Directory not empty
asked Sep 3, 2014 at 3:48
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2possible duplicate of How to delete a non-empty directory in Terminal?– amcSep 3, 2014 at 4:25
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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.
answered Sep 3, 2014 at 4:00
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you don't need to use
-fand might be a bad suggestion for someone who appears to not know what they're doing. also,sudois not necessarily "basic Linux." there's still a camp that believes it makes more sense to use therootaccount. it is basic Debian/Ubuntu/etc.– wxlSep 3, 2014 at 5:33
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.
