Technical Notes

Manpages - rmdir.1

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 to remove a non-empty directory
-p, –parents
remove DIRECTORY and its ancestors; e.g., 'rmdir -p a/b' is similar to 'rmdir 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: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
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SEE ALSO

*rmdir*(2)

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