rmdir(1) [opendarwin man page]

RMDIR(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 						  RMDIR(1)

NAME

     rmdir -- remove directories

SYNOPSIS

     rmdir [-p] directory ...

DESCRIPTION

     The rmdir utility removes the directory entry specified by each directory argument, provided it is empty.

     Arguments are processed in the order given.  In order to remove both a parent directory and a subdirectory of that parent, the subdirectory
     must be specified first so the parent directory is empty when rmdir tries to remove it.

     The following option is available:

     -p      Each directory argument is treated as a pathname of which all components will be removed, if they are empty, starting with the last
	     most component.  (See rm(1) for fully non-discriminant recursive removal.)

     The rmdir utility exits with one of the following values:

     0	     Each directory entry specified by a dir operand referred to an empty directory and was removed successfully.

     >0      An error occurred.

SEE ALSO

     rm(1)

STANDARDS

     The rmdir command is expected to be IEEE Std 1003.2 (``POSIX.2'') compatible.

HISTORY

     A rmdir command appeared in Version 1 AT&T UNIX.

BSD
								   May 31, 1993 							       BSD

RMDIR(1)								FSF								  RMDIR(1)

NAME

       rmdir - remove empty directories

SYNOPSIS

       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, 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

AUTHOR

       Written by David MacKenzie.

REPORTING BUGS

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

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
       This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICU-
       LAR PURPOSE.

SEE ALSO

       The  full  documentation  for rmdir is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If the info and rmdir programs are properly installed at your site,
       the command

	      info rmdir

       should give you access to the complete manual.

rmdir (coreutils) 4.5.3 					   February 2003							  RMDIR(1)