Section 1: rmdir



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RMDIR(1)                       FSF                       RMDIR(1)


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 direc- tory is non-empty -p, --parents remove DIRECTORY, then try to remove each directory component of that path name. E.g., `rmdir -p a/b/c' is similar to `rmdir a/b/c a/b a'. --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 bugs to .

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying condi- tions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. SEE ALSO The full documentation for rmdir is maintained as a Tex- info manual. If the info and rmdir programs are properly installed at your site, the command info rmdir should give you access to the complete manual. GNU fileutils 4.0l May 2000 1