Wednesday, March 11, 2015

Man - rmdir

RMDIR(1)                                                                                      User Commands                                                                                      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 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:
       General help using GNU software:
       Report rmdir translation bugs to

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright © 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.  License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later .
       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)

       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.



GNU coreutils 8.12.197-032bb                                                                  September 2011                                                                                     RMDIR(1)