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rmdir ? remove empty directories |
rmdir [OPTION]... DIRECTORY... |
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, 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 |
Written by David MacKenzie. |
Report bugs to <bug-fileutils@gnu.org>. |
Copyright © 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc. |
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 rmdir |
should give you access to the complete manual. |