08-26-2002
DANGER WILL ROBINSON!!!! DANGER!!!
This is my official warning regarding "rm -r somedir".
Please use this with care, because if you mistype the directory, you can do serious damage.
Remember this old but wise saying: " Perfect paranoia is perfect awareness".
And by no means use the rm -r *, I shudder even when I think of this command.
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RMDIR(1) User Commands 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 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
GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> Report rmdir translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
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)