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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 \(aq(coreutils) rmdir invocation\(aq