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rmdir

remove empty directories

Synopsis

rmdir [OPTION]... DIRECTORY...


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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

copyright

Copyright © 2012 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.

reporting bugs

Report rmdir bugs to bug-coreutils[:at:]gnu[:dot:]org
GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
Report rmdir translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>


see also

rmdir

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 'rmdir invocation'

should give you access to the complete manual.


author

Written by David MacKenzie.

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