You can remove an empty directory (one with no files or subdirectories) from the file system with the rmdir command. The format of the command is:

rmdir directory

To remove your working directory, you must first move into another working directory.

To delete the files in a directory and the directory itself in one step, use the rm command with the -r option. The format of the command is:

rm -r file

where file is the name of the directory. Be careful! You may want to use the -i option so that you will be prompted to confirm the deletions:

rm -ri file