remove folder recursively linux code example

Example 1: how to remove folder and its contents in linux

rm -rf dirname

Example 2: how to delete particular type file recursively in linux

find . -type f -name '*.o' -delete

Example 3: rm directory linux

To remove an empty directory, use either rmdir or rm -d followed by the directory name: 
rm -d dirname rmdir dirname.
To remove non-empty directories and all the files within them, use the rm command with the -r (recursive) option: 
rm -r dirname.