Man Pages - Manpage for rmdir

man page for the unix linux bsd command rmdir

NAME

rmdir - remove empty directories

rmdir [OPTION]... DIRECTORY...

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'.

-v, --verbose

output a diagnostic for every directory processed

--help display this help and exit

--version

output version information and exit

Written by David MacKenzie.

Report bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.