12: Removing directories

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We now have a few (empty) directories that we should remove. To do this use the rmdir command, this will only remove empty directories so it is quite safe to use. If you want to know more about this command (or any Unix command), then remember that you can just look at its man page.

learner@:~$ cd ~/learning_unix/outer/
learner@:outer$ rmdir inner/
learner@:outer$ cd ..
learner@:learning_unix$ rmdir outer/
learner@:learning_unix$ ls
learner@:learning_unix$

Note, you have to be outside a directory before you can remove it with rmdir