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I just started working with iTerm an I've been playing around, creating folders and files and such. Now I want to get rid of those test folders. I used rmdir, rm -r and all of those commands and I successfully emptied the folders, but they still show up in my main folder. When I try to delete them, it says the folders aren't empty, even though they are.

Does anybody know how to fix this? I just want to clean up my main folder. :( Thanks in advance.

I tried various delete commands.

Joachim Sauer
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  • Did you try `rm -rf `, relaunch Finder, or restart system? – Míng Feb 01 '23 at 09:04
  • The folders likely contain hidden files (in unix-land, which Mac OS X is part of that means files where the names start with a `.` like `.config` or such). Also: iTerm isn't really doing much other than displaying text and taking input, the thing that takes and executes your commands is a shell (which is zsh by default on Mac OS X). – Joachim Sauer Feb 01 '23 at 09:39
  • @Mr.Míng i tired rm -rf and have restarted my Mac since then... – supernova-97 Feb 01 '23 at 12:00
  • @JoachimSauer thanks for the definition. I'm still getting my vocab mixed up. Is there a way to delete those hidden files as well? – supernova-97 Feb 01 '23 at 12:01

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