Why am I getting "Directory not empty" with "rm

2023年4月13日 — rm: cannot remove 'prog/': Directory not empty. I cant find an example online where rm -rf dir/ doesnt allow you to delete a directory. How ...

2021年6月21日 — I used lsof dir/fuse_hidden to show processes using this file and closed them. After that I rm -rf was possible.

2024年3月19日 — We use the rm command to delete a directory that is not empty. The syntax is: $ rm -rf dir-name $ rm -rf /path/to/dir/name. Be careful when ...

2014年5月1日 — The Directory not empty message is quite misleading. Normally, an rm -rf will remove everything in a directory, recursively, so it wouldn't ...

2012年8月27日 — In nearly all cases, if a directory seems to be empty, use rmdir directory or perhaps sudo rmdir directory . Do not use rm (or del under Windows) ...

2014年1月13日 — The -a flag tells ls to list hidden files (aka dot files). Remove those files then rmdir can be used. Another option is to simply use rm -rf ...

2019年3月14日 — Retry rm -rf if it fails and returns ENOTEMPTY (although then the other application may fail since the directory was removed from below it).

2014年12月29日 — You could delete it by typing sudo rm -rf dir_name} . The directory might have been set to read-only permission. I hope the given command can ...

2022年6月11日 — As I understand it, the problem is with the hidden directories beginning with the . character, in your case .directory_pool. They are not ...

2022年1月7日 — 文章浏览阅读3.1w次，点赞7次，收藏17次。在linux系统中，有时候需要删除某一目录时常常会提示该目录非空，无法删除的情况，很多时候是由于正在某些 ...