How to remove folders with a certain name
linux, rm, unix
Solution
If the target directory is empty, use find, filter with only directories, filter by name, execute rmdir:
find . -type d -name a -exec rmdir {} \;
If you want to recursively delete its contents, replace `-exec rmdir {} \;` with `-delete` or `-prune -exec rm -rf {} \;`. Other answers include details about these versions, credit them too.
Problem
In Linux, how do I remove folders with a certain name which are nested deep in a folder hierarchy? The following paths are under a folder and I would like to remove all folders named `a`. ``` 1/2/3/a 1/2/3/b 10/20/30/a 10/20/30/b 100/200/300/a 100/200/300/b ``` What Linux command should I use from the parent folder?