rmdir - remove empty directories

rmdir deletes each given directory. The directory must be empty; containing no entries other than . or ... If a directory and a subdirectory of that directory are specified as operands, the subdirectory must be specified before the parent so that the parent directory will be empty when rmdir attempts to remove it.

-e, --ignore-fail-on-non-empty

Ignore each non-empty directory failure.

-p, --parents

Remove each explicit directory argument directory that becomes empty after its child directories are removed.

-s, --suppress

Suppress the message printed on the standard error when -p is in effect.

0

All directories deleted successfully.

>0

One or more directories could not be deleted.

mkdir(1), rm(1), rmdir(2), unlink(2)

version

rmdir (AT&T Research) 2006-08-24

author

Glenn Fowler <gsf@research.att.com>

author

David Korn <dgk@research.att.com>

copyright

Copyright © 1992-2012 AT&T Intellectual Property

license

http://www.eclipse.org/org/documents/epl-v10.html