Re: Problem with Directory

[Eric Blake]

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According to Sultan Haque on 2/18/2009 1:45 PM:

Hello Sultan,

> Hi, i named a directory a.out and put a copy file named HelloWorld.c in it.
> Well now i am trying to delete the a.out directory by typing rmdir a.out but
> it is telling me to empty directory. I am having a hard time emptying the
> a.out directory. Please could you help me with this.

You have two options.  One is removing the contents of a.out manually
(moving them somewhere else, or deleting them), prior to removing the
directory:

$ rm a.out/*
$ rmdir a.out

The other is to do it in one shot:

$ rm -R a.out

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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