coreutils: rmdir invocation
12.7 ‘rmdir’: Remove empty directories
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‘rmdir’ removes empty directories. Synopsis:
rmdir [OPTION]... DIRECTORY...
If any DIRECTORY argument does not refer to an existing empty
directory, it is an error.
The program accepts the following options. Also see ⇒Common
options.
‘--ignore-fail-on-non-empty’
Ignore each failure to remove a directory that is solely because
the directory is non-empty.
‘-p’
‘--parents’
Remove DIRECTORY, then try to remove each component of DIRECTORY.
So, for example, ‘rmdir -p a/b/c’ is similar to ‘rmdir a/b/c a/b
a’. As such, it fails if any of those directories turns out not to
be empty. Use the ‘--ignore-fail-on-non-empty’ option to make it
so such a failure does not evoke a diagnostic and does not cause
‘rmdir’ to exit unsuccessfully.
‘-v’
‘--verbose’
Give a diagnostic for each successful removal. DIRECTORY is
removed.
⇒rm invocation, for how to remove non-empty directories
(recursively).
An exit status of zero indicates success, and a nonzero value
indicates failure.