rmdir (1) Linux Manual Page

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

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COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://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 <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/rmdir>
or available locally via: info ‘(coreutils) rmdir invocation’

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