[plug] /Newbie - Removing non empty directories

[Earnshaw, Mike]

List,

How do you remove non empty directories in Linux?

I have tried:

rmdir * --ignore-fail-on-non-empty

and

rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty *

also tried using specific directory names instead of *

Neither worked. I appreciate the danger of -r, which I am **not** using.

If I wanted to do this on a regular basis, typing in the above switches
(assuming they worked) would be tedious (probably an intentional thing), can
I set an alias up for this?

Thanks

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