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.

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								   May 31, 1993 							       BSD

RMDIR(2)						      BSD System Calls Manual							  RMDIR(2)

NAME

     rmdir -- remove a directory file

LIBRARY

     Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

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 VALUES

     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:

     [ENOTDIR]		A component of the path is not a directory.

     [ENAMETOOLONG]	A component of a pathname exceeded {NAME_MAX} characters, or an entire path name exceeded {PATH_MAX} characters.

     [ENOENT]		The named directory does not exist.

     [ELOOP]		Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the pathname.

     [ENOTEMPTY]	The named directory contains files other than '.' and '..' in it.

     [EACCES]		Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix, or 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)

STANDARDS

     The rmdir() function conforms to ISO/IEC 9945-1:1990 (``POSIX.1'').

HISTORY

     The rmdir() function call appeared in 4.2BSD.

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								   June 4, 1993 							       BSD