Exam 010-160 topic 1 question 35 discussion

B & E but the correct sentence in E is: rm -r Downloads

rm without any option (rm folder) is incapable of deleting a directory whether empty or full. rmdir folder will delete an empty directory and rm -r will delete a directory, empty or non-empty

Correction: B is wrong. Try it on a terminal.

B. rmdir Downloads E. rm -r Downloads To remove an empty directory, you can use the rmdir command (Option B). If the directory is not empty and you want to remove it along with its contents, you can use the rm -r command (Option E). Options A, C, and D are not valid commands for removing directories.

The only correct option is E. rmdir will only delete an empty directory. rm -r will delete the folder together with it's content

If "Downloads" is empty, then why do we need to -r to remove sub-directories? If there are sub-directories, then it's not empty. If it's empty, then the original command shouldn't have failed?

Running the command rm Downloads leads to the following error: rm: cannot remove "˜Downloads/': Is a directory Which of the following commands can be used instead to remove Downloads, assuming Downloads is empty? (Choose two.) correct answer is B, because assuming the Downloads directory is empty answer E is related of below context: But, how do you delete a full directory that has many files and sub-directories? The solutions is to pass the -rf option to the rm command rm -r Downloads rm -rf Downloads so, my conclusion - must to be only answer B

B is not correct.Because "rmdir" delete only empty directories.