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To remove a directory use the command:
rmdir directory_name
The directory must be empty before you can delete it. You will need to remove any files and subdirectories that it contains.
To remove a directory that contains files use the command:
rm -r directory_name
This deletes all the contents of the directory including any subdirectories.
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