RMDIR
Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: December 2009
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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
Report rmdir bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2009 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)
The full documentation for
rmdir
is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the
info
and
rmdir
programs are properly installed at your site, the command
-
info coreutils aqrmdir invocationaq
should give you access to the complete manual.