Shell/FTP: Can't seem to delete a directory

[jiwq]

In my dreamhost Shell / FTP, there's some directories that were created when I did some cvs, but can't seem to delete. It looks like all the files inside each directory are gone, but whenever I delete, it says that the dir is not empty. Any clue on how to delete the dir?

 

[n0cmonkey]

rm -rf

But be careful with that. Double check the command to make sure you didn't fat finger something. I've done it, and it can hurt. 🙁

This should probably work too (you probably have a hidden file (starts with a .) in there):
cd DIR && rm .* && cd && rmdir DIR

 

[jiwq]

so rm -rf forcefully gets rid of everything in the current dir and everything inside it?

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: jiwq
so rm -rf forcefully gets rid of everything in the current dir and everything inside it?

It should have read rm -rf DIR.

It recursively and forcefully gets rid of everything under DIR and then the DIR itself.

 

[kamper]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
cd DIR && rm .* && cd .. && rmdir DIR

Fixed. Careful there!

Edit: although I guess it wouldn't matter if DIR is absolute

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: kamper

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
cd DIR && rm .* && cd .. && rmdir DIR

Fixed. Careful there!

Edit: although I guess it wouldn't matter if DIR is absolute

Mine's fine if the DIR is in the home directory, guess I could have dumbed it down even more.