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How do I force delete a directory in Linux?

last updated July 5, 2019 in BASH Shell, CentOS, Debian / Ubuntu, Linux, RedHat and Friends, Suse

I am trying to delete a directory in Linux using the rmdir dir1 command. But, I am getting an error that read as follows:
rmdir: failed to remove `dir1': Directory not empty
How do I force remove and delete a directory in Linux?

How to remove non empty Directory in Linux

last updated January 20, 2018 in Commands, Linux

I am trying to delete a directory in Linux using the rmdir command. However, I am getting an error message that read as follows:
rmdir: failed to remove 'trip-pictures': Directory not empty
How can I remove non empty directory in Linux using the cli?
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How to find and delete directory recursively on Linux or Unix-like system

last updated June 22, 2017 in BASH Shell, Linux, UNIX

I type ‘find . -type d -iname foo -delete‘ command to find the foo directories and delete them. However, I am getting an error message that read as find: cannot delete './hourly.4/data/foo': Directory not empty on Linux server. How do delete directories based on find command output on Linux or Unix-like system?

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