RMDIR

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: September 2017
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NAME

rmdir - remove empty directories  

SYNOPSIS

rmdir [,OPTION/]... ,DIRECTORY/...  

DESCRIPTION

Remove the DIRECTORY(ies), if they are empty.

--ignore-fail-on-non-empty

ignore each failure that is solely because a directory

is non-empty

-p, --parents

remove DIRECTORY and its ancestors; e.g., 'rmdir -p a/b/c' is similar to 'rmdir a/b/c a/b a'

-v, --verbose

output a diagnostic for every directory processed

--help

display this help and exit

--version

output version information and exit

 

AUTHOR

Written by David MacKenzie.  

REPORTING BUGS

GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
Report rmdir translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>  

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.  

SEE ALSO

rmdir(2)

Full documentation at: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/rmdir>
or available locally via: info aq(coreutils) rmdir invocationaq

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