There are multiple ways in which you can remove or delete a directory in Linux or macOS using Terminal commands, let us take a look at some of them,
Remove directory using rmdir command
rmdir is a command line utility that you can use to delete empty directories, this will work only when the directory is empty, let's see some examples,
% mkdir myDir
% rmdir myDir
%
In the below example we created a directory and add a file in it, now if you try to delete the directory you will get the error "Directory not empty"
% mkdir myDir
% cd myDir
% touch myFile.txt
% cd ..
% rmdir myDir
rmdir: myDir: Directory not empty
%
Remove directory using rm command
If you want to remove a directory that contains directories and files in it you can make use of rm -r command,
% rm myDir
rm: myDir: is a directory
% rm -r myDir
%
If you get no error and you are returned to the prompt returns, your command was successfully executed and the dir should be deleted.
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