remove folder -linux

Command to remove a empty and non-empty directory:

rm directory
or
rmdir directory

both will deletes the 'directory' if it is an empty directory

and
if it is not a empty directory then these commands will return an error message

for rm command:
rm: cannot remove ‘directory’: Is a directory

for rmdir command:
rmdir: failed to remove ‘directory’: Directory not empty


Solution is with rmdir we can not delete the non-empty directory

by using rm command with argument

rm -rf directory

 Here,

-r, -R, --recursive
              remove directories and their contents recursively

-f, --force
              ignore  nonexistent  files  and  arguments,  never
              prompt