$ cd Work\ Permit
$ rm -r Work\ Permit

quoting should work too.
$ cd “Work Permit”
$ rm -r “Work Permit”

I hope someone can give me an answer to a question I have now for a few day’s…
: How can I Remove a complete Directory with sub folders and files when a Directory has a name with a space in between, some Directory called “Work Permit” to remove in my home Directory? Every time I get the message that it’s not recognized, and I also cannot CD to that Directory…

I hope someone can help me…. HELP!!!

Yeah it works…rm -r aryan/*
thats gr8 to have your replies….

WARNING: read whole sentence before trying to remove anything. =)
In fact using “aryan/.*” would help nither, because it also contains the “aryan/..” (try ls aryan/.*) which is your actual directory. You could ommit it by using “aryan/.[^.]*” but it seems way too compicated to me.

So in case you want to remove content of directory “aryan” including hidden files, I prefer to use rm -r `ls -A aryan`

OK. I tried it now with rm…. To correct myself you can simpy use: rm -r aryan/.* ayran/*
because rm will just complain about it like this:
rm: cannot remove `.’ directory `aryan/.’
rm: cannot remove `..’ directory `aryan/..’
but it will correctly erase all the content and nothing else. As I hate such errors i’d still use ls =)

Know it’s not too helpfull. Just FYI in case you use hidden files.

rm -r aryan/*

By using the the “/*” at the end, this path expands to “everything in the aryan directory”. Notice that this does not include the aryan directory itself. Therefore, the contents are deleted, but the directory itself is left intact.

Hg

Thanks,
Praivn Bari

@Ronald, Thanks for starting the discussion on this topic to make it very meaningful and useful to others who are reading this.