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- To remove a file in your current directory type rm <file_name>.
- To remove an empty directory type rmdir <dir_name>.
- To remove a nonempty directory type rm -fr <dir_name>.
Beware! This will recursively delete everything in that directory.
To recover files deleted accidentally, see Section 4.2.
Amit Jain
2009-08-23