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RMDIR(1)						      General Commands Manual							  RMDIR(1)

NAME
rmdir, rm - remove (unlink) directories or files SYNOPSIS
rmdir dir ... rm [ -f ] [ -r ] [ -i ] [ - ] file ... DESCRIPTION
Rmdir removes entries for the named directories, which must be empty. Rm removes the entries for one or more files from a directory. If an entry was the last link to the file, the file is destroyed. Removal of a file requires write permission in its directory, but neither read nor write permission on the file itself. If a file has no write permission and the standard input is a terminal, its permissions are printed and a line is read from the standard input. If that line begins with `y' the file is deleted, otherwise the file remains. No questions are asked and no errors are reported when the -f (force) option is given. If a designated file is a directory, an error comment is printed unless the optional argument -r has been used. In that case, rm recur- sively deletes the entire contents of the specified directory, and the directory itself. If the -i (interactive) option is in effect, rm asks whether to delete each file, and, under -r, whether to examine each directory. The null option - indicates that all the arguments following it are to be treated as file names. This allows the specification of file names starting with a minus. SEE ALSO
rm(1), unlink(2), rmdir(2) 4.2 Berkeley Distribution April 29, 1985 RMDIR(1)

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RMDIR(2)							System Calls Manual							  RMDIR(2)

NAME
rmdir - remove a directory file SYNOPSIS
#include <unistd.h> int rmdir(const char *path) DESCRIPTION
Rmdir removes a directory file whose name is given by path. The directory must not have any entries other than "." and "..". RETURN VALUE
A 0 is returned if the remove succeeds; otherwise a -1 is returned and an error code is stored in the global location errno. ERRORS
The named file is removed unless one or more of the following are true: [ENOTDIR] A component of the path is not a directory. [ENAMETOOLONG] The path name exceeds PATH_MAX characters. [ENOENT] The named directory does not exist. [ELOOP] Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the pathname. (Minix-vmd) [ENOTEMPTY] The named directory contains files other than ``.'' and ``..'' in it. [EACCES] Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix. [EACCES] Write permission is denied on the directory containing the link to be removed. [EPERM] The directory containing the directory to be removed is marked sticky, and neither the containing directory nor the direc- tory to be removed are owned by the effective user ID. [EBUSY] The directory to be removed is the mount point for a mounted file system. [EIO] An I/O error occurred while deleting the directory entry or deallocating the inode. [EROFS] The directory entry to be removed resides on a read-only file system. [EFAULT] Path points outside the process's allocated address space. SEE ALSO
mkdir(2), unlink(2). 4.2 Berkeley Distribution August 26, 1985 RMDIR(2)
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