Section 1 · User commands
rmdir.1
Package: coreutils-common
RMDIR
NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
AUTHOR
REPORTING BUGS
COPYRIGHT
SEE ALSO
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/>
Report any translation bugs to <https://translationproject.org/team/>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2024 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’