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Ubuntu: Delete directories which contain files

by on Jul.28, 2010, under Linux (Ubuntu)

If you’re trying to remove a directory using the rmdir command, you might get an error alerting you, that the desired directory contains files and therefore can’t get deleted. Anyway, there’s an easy solution solving this issue:

rm -rf /tmp/myFolder

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