Deleting all files in the Unix directory

I was trying to create a DB in Unix. I had to remove all the files in the udump directory and I saw that there were files in thousands. I was trying to find a command to remove all of them to make the directory empty, so that I could create the udump file for Database creation. However, I couldn't find a command to remove all of them at once. I tried to google but evey website speaks about just these commands..
rm filename
or
rm -r * directory_name
This doesn't solve my problem as these commands are deleting one file at a time and not all the files at once within the directory. Can someone tell me the solution?

Hi,
First go to the directory where you want to delete all the files and folders. then
rm -fr directory_name
rm -r is not neccessary that it will delete the files and folder.
thx
pradeep

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[2013-09-17 19:30] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -Syu'
[2013-09-17 19:30] [PACMAN] synchronizing package lists
[2013-09-17 19:30] [PACMAN] starting full system upgrade
[2013-09-17 19:34] [PACMAN] upgraded bluez-utils (5.7-1 -> 5.8-1)
[2013-09-17 19:34] [PACMAN] upgraded cogl (1.14.0-4 -> 1.14.0-5)
[2013-09-17 19:34] [PACMAN] upgraded dbus (1.6.12-1 -> 1.6.14-1)
[2013-09-17 19:34] [PACMAN] upgraded dialog (1.2_20130523-2 -> 1.2_20130902-1)
[2013-09-17 19:34] [PACMAN] installed efivar (0.6-1)
[2013-09-17 19:34] [PACMAN] upgraded efibootmgr (0.6.0-3 -> 0.6.0.138.1132342-1)
[2013-09-17 19:34] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] Generating locales...
[2013-09-17 19:34] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] en_GB.UTF-8... done
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[2013-09-17 19:35] [PACMAN] upgraded glibc (2.18-3 -> 2.18-4)
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[2013-09-17 19:35] [PACMAN] upgraded gnome-color-manager (3.8.2-1 -> 3.8.3-1)
[2013-09-17 19:35] [PACMAN] upgraded gnome-settings-daemon (3.8.4-2 -> 3.8.5-1)
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[2013-09-17 19:35] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [udev]
[2013-09-17 19:35] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [autodetect]
[2013-09-17 19:35] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [modconf]
[2013-09-17 19:35] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [block]
[2013-09-17 19:35] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [filesystems]
[2013-09-17 19:35] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [keyboard]
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