- To remove the folder with all its contents(including all interior folders):
12rm -rf /path/to/directory - To remove all the contents of the folder(including all interior folders) but not the folder itself:
12rm -rf /path/to/directory/* - To remove all the “files” from inside a folder(not removing interior folders):
12rm -f /path/to/directory/*
Where:
rm
– stands for “remove“-f
– stands for “force” which is helpful when you don’t want to be asked/prompted if you want to remove an archive, for example.-r
– stands for “recursive” which means that you want to go recursively down every folder and remove everything.