In another entry of his Linux 101 series, Jack Wallen shows you how to delete files and folders from Linux using the Command Line Interface (CLI).

There are many ways to clean up or remove files, including using commands such as rm (remove), rmdir (remove directory), shred, and unlink.

Learn the basics of directory management in Linux using the command line tool.

Some Linux users are finding this out the hard way when they discovered that their Steam client was silently deleting files starting from the very root directory all the way into the deepest folders.