Question

Which one of the following command can delete a directory which is not empty?

(a) rm  -r

(b) rmdir

(c) rm *

(d) del *

This question was addressed to me in final exam.

My doubt is from Deleting and Renaming files: rm and mv Command topic in section Handling Ordinary Files of Unix

Answer 1

Correct answer is (a) rm  -r

The explanation: rm command normally does not remove directories but when it is used with -r option it does. So if we invoke a command like,