rmdir problem in Molinux

2006-12-14 Thread M. David Frost
Hi, I'm a fairly new Linux user and computer literate, but not a geek. I've tried to remove an empty directory as follows (filename being the name of the directory that I'm trying to delete): rmdir filename (error message - directory not empty) rmdir -rf filename (error message -

Re: rmdir problem in Molinux

2006-12-14 Thread Brian Dessent
M. David Frost wrote: rmdir filename (error message - directory not empty) rmdir -rf filename (error message - invalid option -- r) When I type: dir filename the directory is empty. It may not be empty. ls doesn't show everything by default. Files that begin with . for