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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/>

SEE ALSO

rmdir(2)

Full documentation at: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/rmdir>

or available locally via: info '(coreutils) rmdir invocation'

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2015 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.