How do you delete a directory via telnet?

says:

[root@server home]# rm data
rm: data: is a directory
[root@server home]#

rmdir -R directory name


Steve

Hey Steve,

[root@server home]# rmdir data
rmdir: data: Directory not empty
[root@server home]# rmdir -R data
rmdir: invalid option -- R
Try `rmdir --help' for more information.
[root@server home]# rmdir --help
Usage: rmdir [OPTION]... DIRECTORY...
Remove the DIRECTORY(ies), if they are empty.

--ignore-fail-on-non-empty
ignore each failure that is solely because the
directory is non-empty
-p, --parents remove explicit parent directories if being emptied
--verbose output a diagnostic for every directory processed
--help display this help and exit
--version output version information and exit

Report bugs to <bug-fileutils@gnu.org>.
[root@server home]#

-R invalid, it says dir not empty but doesn't show any files in it either... weird

rm -rf ./the_directory

Use this:

rm -R directoryname

It's what I use everytime when I want to delete a directory.