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RMDIR

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
AUTHOR
REPORTING BUGS
COPYRIGHT
SEE ALSO

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, 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 <bug-fileutils@gnu.org>.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. 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 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.


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