bash-2.05b$ mkdir test bash-2.05b$ cd test bash-2.05b$ ls -la total 12 drwxr-xr-x 2 dcid devteam 4096 Aug 3 08:57 . drwxr-xr-x 65 dcid devteam 8192 Aug 3 08:57 .. bash-2.05b$ sudo touch file1 bash-2.05b$ ls -la total 12 drwxr-xr-x 2 dcid devteam 4096 Aug 3 08:58 . drwxr-xr-x 65 dcid devteam 8192 Aug 3 08:57 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Aug 3 08:58 file1 bash-2.05b$ rm file1 rm: remove write-protected regular empty file `file1'? y bash-2.05b$ ls bash-2.05b$ ls -la total 12 drwxr-xr-x 2 dcid devteam 4096 Aug 3 08:58 . drwxr-xr-x 65 dcid devteam 8192 Aug 3 08:57 .. bash-2.05b$ sudo mkdir dir1 bash-2.05b$ ls -la total 16 drwxr-xr-x 3 dcid devteam 4096 Aug 3 08:59 . drwxr-xr-x 65 dcid devteam 8192 Aug 3 08:57 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 3 08:59 dir1 bash-2.05b$ rmdir dir1 bash-2.05b$ ls bash-2.05b$ ls -la total 12 drwxr-xr-x 2 dcid devteam 4096 Aug 3 08:59 . drwxr-xr-x 65 dcid devteam 8192 Aug 3 08:57 ..