Cannot remove empty directory

[A. Khattri]

On Wed, 15 Jun 2005, Vu Pham wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: linux-users-bounces at linux-sxs.org
> > [mailto:linux-users-bounces at linux-sxs.org] On Behalf Of Michael Hipp
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 2:30 PM
> > To: Linux Users
> > Subject: Cannot remove empty directory
> >
> > I'm trying to delete an empty directory - normally not a
> > particularly esoteric task :-)
> >
> >    $ ls -lah
> >    drwx------   1 michael michael    6 2005-06-15 14:10 apps
> >    [snip]
> >    $ rmdir apps
>
> Try "rm -rf" instead of rmdir. Just do not run it at root level :-)

Everyone keeps saying that but I think he already did:

> >    $ rm -drf apps
> >    rm: cannot remove directory `apps': Directory not empty