NAME

rmdir — remove directories

SYNOPSIS

rmdir [-pv] [--ignore-fail-on-non-empty] directory...

The rmdir utility removes each given directory.

--ignore-fail-on-non-empty: Ignore failures to remove non-empty directories
-p: Remove all parents directories present in the directory argument, but not beyond. This is effectively the opposite of mkdir -p directory
-v: Verbose, print each action done

The rmdir utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

rmdir should be compliant with the IEEE Std 1003.1-2024 (“POSIX.1”) specification.

The -v and --ignore-fail-on-non-empty options are extensions.

Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier <contact+utils@hacktivis.me>