Managing directories on Linux is easy, but the process gets more complex when you need to create, empty or remove large, complex directory structures. This post will take you from the most basic ...

Unix was developed as a command line interface in the early 1970s with a very rich command vocabulary. DOS followed more than a decade later for the IBM PC, and DOS commands migrated to Windows.

As you undoubtedly know, the rmdir command will remove an empty directory but, if a directory contains files, it will balk and report “Directory not empty”. To remove directories which are in fact ...