Linux manual pages Section 1: General Commands  

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

Report rmdir bugs to bug−coreutils@gnu.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(2)

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.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2013 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.