How to delete files from the HDFS?

Question

I just downloaded Hortonworks sandbox VM, inside it there are Hadoop with the version 2.7.1. I adding some files by using the

hadoop fs -put /hw1/* /hw1
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Answer 1

If you also need to skip trash following command works for me

hdfs dfs -rm -R -skipTrash /path/to/HDFS/file