NAME¶

rmdir - Remove the DIRECTORY(ies), if they are empty.

SYNOPSIS¶

rmdir [--ignore-fail-on-non-empty] [-p|--parents] [-v|--verbose] [-h|--help] [-V|--version] <dirs>

DESCRIPTION¶

Remove the DIRECTORY(ies), if they are empty.

OPTIONS¶

--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

-h, --help

Print help

-V, --version

Print version

<dirs>

VERSION¶

v(uutils coreutils) 0.9.0

EXAMPLES¶

Remove specific directories:

rmdir path/to/directory1 path/to/directory2 ...

Remove specific nested directories recursively:

rmdir [-p|--parents] path/to/directory1 path/to/directory2 ...

Clean a directory of empty directories:

rmdir *

The examples are provided by the tldr-pages project <https://tldr.sh> under the CC BY 4.0 License. Please note that, as uutils is a work in progress, some examples might fail.