rmdir
—
remove directories
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.
The rmdir
utility is expected to be
IEEE Std 1003.2 (“POSIX.2”) compatible.
An rmdir
utility appeared in
Version 1 AT&T UNIX.