As you undoubtedly know, the rmdir command will remove an empty directory but, if a directory contains files, it will balk and report “Directory not empty”. To remove directories which are in fact ...

There are many ways to clean up or remove files, including using commands such as rm (remove), rmdir (remove directory), shred, and unlink. The rm (remove) command is the most obvious way to remove ...

In the previous two installments in this series, we looked at the basics of using the Terminal to access the Unix command line at the heart of Mac OS X, and then at how to use the Terminal to move ...