HP 382 - Removing Files and Directories

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Remo
ving
Files
and
Directories
If
y
ou
ha
ve
les that
are no
longer needed,
y
ou
should
remo
v
e
(delete)
them.
Deleting
unnecessary les
lea
v
es
more
ro
om
on
y
our
system.
F
or
example,
supp
ose
y
ou'v
e
nished
using
myfile2
,
and
it
is no
longer needed.
To
remov
e
myfile2
,
typ
e:
$
rm myfile2
T
o
remov
ean
empty directory
,
t
yp
e
the
follo
wing:
rmdir
dirname
If
there
are
an
y
visible
or
in
visible
(\dot")
les
still
in
the
directory
,
this
command will
not b
e executed,
and
y
ou
will
get
a
message
that
the
directory
is
not
empt
y
.
Also,
if
there
are an
ysub
directories in
the
directory
,
y
ou
will
get
a
message.
In
either
case
y
ou
can
do
the
follo
wing:
cd
dirname
rm
*
ll
-a
A
ny
invisible
\dot"
lenames
r
emaining
wil
l
b
e
displaye
d.
rm
.lenames
Y
ou
may
have
to
r
ep
e
at
this
c
ommand
for
al
ldot
les.
rmdir
*
This r
emoves any
empty
sub
dir
e
ctories.
cd
..
T
o
get
to the
par
ent dir
e
ctory
again.
rm
dirname
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