Hello everyone, i am using rm ./directory to delete the directory some directory and i am facing this error: rmdir: failed to remove directory: Directory not empty, i do not know why this issue occurs, can anyone please help me.
Thank you
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I recommend the following actions, then come back with any remaining questions.
ls -al ./directory
man rm
man rmdir
I do not understand how running rm results in an error message from rmdir. I get some fairly specific error messages:
$ rm ./directory
rm: cannot remove './directory': Is a directory
$ rmdir ./directory
rmdir: failed to remove './directory': Directory not empty
Can you clarify: (a) That there are no aliases defined that affect rm and rmdir. Use:
$ type rm rmdir
and (b) What distro and version are you running ?
rmdir removes empty directories only, never files.
rm by default removes files only,
but with -r option (recursive, GNU rm also takes a speaking --recursive option) it removes files and directories (the whole directory tree).
Hi, Thank You for the Suggestions, and these are really help me to delete the Directory, i rm -rf 'AccessType' and it works for me, thank you my problem is solved now,