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KanyeQuest
KanyeQuest

Reputation: 1

How to delete existing directory - RUBY installfest creating app

Starting out with Ruby on Rails Installfest where it has me create and deploy an app. Ran into an issue when trying to deploy the app so wanted to go back and start over, however when prompted to create directory: 

mkdir railsbridge

I get

mkdir: railsbridge: File exists

How can I remove this existing directory to start over completely?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 83

Answers (1)

wuworkshop
wuworkshop

Reputation: 71

If your railsbridge folder isn't empty, then rmdir isn't going to work. Instead, you can try rm -rf railsbridge to force removing directories and their contents recursively.

References:

rmdir - http://explainshell.com/explain?cmd=rmdir

rm -rf - http://explainshell.com/explain?cmd=rm+-rf

Upvotes: 1

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