Removing a folder and its contents in Widnows is not something that i spend a lot of thought on, i just do it.  However, trying to do the same on red hat Linux, really  stumped me.  Each time i tried “rmdir” its told me that the directory was not empty.  After some googling i found the below command.

sudo rm -fr /dir/subdir

sudo, so that its running as root and then  the “-fr” to force and run recursively.  More details on the rm command, can be found here