NAME
rmdir – remove empty directoriesSYNOPSIS
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
GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>Report rmdir translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://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.
Willie
Willie has over 15 years of experience in Linux system administration and DevOps. After managing infrastructure for startups and enterprises alike, he founded Command Linux to share the practical knowledge he wished he had when starting out. He oversees content strategy and contributes guides on server management, automation, and security.