HOW TO DELETE ALL FILES AND DIRECTORIES IN A FOLDER

HOW TO DELETE ALL FILES AND DIRECTORIES IN A FOLDER

suppose you need to delete all files under /data/ramesh

using * we can delete all the files and directories

[root@tstvm ramesh]# ls -lrt
total 28
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root    0 Jul 17 07:57 ramesh
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root    0 Jul 17 07:57 b
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root    0 Jul 17 07:57 a
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Jul 17 07:58 kishore
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Jul 17 07:58 sam
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Jul 17 07:58 sai
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Jul 17 07:59 ram
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Jul 17 07:59 logs
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Jul 17 07:59 data
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Jul 17 07:59 apple
[root@tstvm ramesh]# rm -rf *
[root@tstvm ramesh]# ls
[root@tstvm ramesh]# ls -lrt
total 0
[root@tstvm ramesh]#
[root@tstvm ramesh]# pwd
/data/ramesh
[root@tstvm ramesh]#