On Thursday 05 October 2006 11:33, George Adamides wrote: > hi > how do i delete directories in linux? i used rmdir but when a directory has > other subdirectories its a mess. is there an easy way around? if you are currently in the parent directory and you wish to delete a directory called delete-me and everything (directories and files) in it, and delete-ne itself then issue:- rm -rf delete-me David