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)
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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 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
--help display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
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AUTHOR
Written by David MacKenzie.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO rmdir(2)
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 coreutils 'rmdir invocation'
should give you access to the complete manual.
GNU coreutils 8.22 June 2014 RMDIR(1)
Hi, Any command or means to delete a director which is not empty
rmdir or similar
iam using Sun Solaries 2.6 :confused:
I have many full directories with subdirectories and I can not go on emptying them all (5 Replies)
Hello,
I am aware of that Find command finds certain files and remove command removes certain files.
However, is there a way to Find certain DIRECTORY and remove that DIRECTORY?
thank you (3 Replies)
Hi
Wrote the below script to identify the empty directories ,when executing the below showing that directory is not empty but the directories are empty.Please help to identify the empty directories
33 is not empty
33 is not empty
33 is not empty
33 is not empty
for file in `find .... (5 Replies)
I use Ubuntu Linux, and I'd like to become more familiar with the CLI. I have these questions:
1) How to remove a directory that is not empty? The only option in man rmdir is -p and that does not do what I need. rm -R needs sudo for some reason.
2) What is a CLI command to make all the files... (3 Replies)
Hi All,
I am checking for a empty input file to do some further action , but I am getting exit status 0 in both the cases , for empty and non empty file both.
The value of $? is coming 0 in if part also and else part too.
#!/bin/ksh
if ]; then
echo "data"
# exit 0
echo "$?"
else... (4 Replies)
Hi,
I need to delete an empty directory in a temp directory except "dir5" (keep everything that is not empty).
Plese advise.
Here is an example of my directory.
/dir/temp/
dir1 - delete if this is empty
dir2 - delete if this is empty
dir3 - delete if this is empty
dir4 - delete if this... (7 Replies)
Bonjour,
J'ai un répertoire /travail qui est vide.
je lance dans une console
cd /travail
puis
rmdir aa 2>&1 > /dev/null
et s'affiche alors " rmdir : aa :Aucun fichier ou répertoire de ce type."
J'essaie de comprendre :
rmdir aa 2>&1 redirige 2 vers 1 donc le message d'erreur vers... (4 Replies)
I need to remove subdirectories that are empty and I've not done this before. First I am going through the files to remove old records. Then if the directory is empty I want to delete it. There are files in /direcotry/images/fs* - 0-9 and a-z The fs* directories need to stay, but any directories... (4 Replies)
Hello:
I searched here for "vi -c" but found no hits.
How can I use vi -c to remove ALL empty lines, regardless of how many?
I tried
<code>
vi -c ":g/^$/d | wq" filename
</code>
but I have to run it several times.
This is NOT homework. :)
Thanks for your time. (3 Replies)
Friends,
I have accidently, as root, created a directory gabsf under /home. Now I cannot delete this thing, I have tried rm and rmdir, as well as explicit path name, but it is really undeleteable. Here is what ls -l says.
# ls -l /home
total 6
drwxr-xr-x 2 dawood dawood 2 Sep 5... (3 Replies)
Which command will be good to use when I want to remove all files and directories from the directory (i want to have empty derictory).
Sorry for my English :p
... (3 Replies)
Oracle Linux 6.4
bash shell
I am trying to remove the directory named OPatch. I am trying to run rm and rmdir commands while logged in as grid user, the owner of the directory.
But I keep getting "Permission denied" error. It is an empty directory. Any idea why I am getting 'Permission denied'... (5 Replies)
how to remove empty files tried below command its remove only zero bytes not empty file which is greater then zero byte.
for x in *
do
if
then
rm $x
fi
done (8 Replies)
I am using aix. I would like to ignore the /u directory. I tried this but it is not working.
find / -type f -type d \( -path /u \) -prune -o -name '*rpm*' 2>/dev/null
/u/appx/ls.rpm
/u/arch/vim.rpm (4 Replies)