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38 .Dd May 31, 1993

39 .Dt RMDIR 1

40 .Os

41 .Sh NAME

42 .Nm rmdir

43 .Nd remove directories

44 .Sh SYNOPSIS

45 .Nm

46 .Op Fl p

47 .Ar directory ...

48 .Sh DESCRIPTION

49 The

50 .Nm

51 utility removes the directory entry specified by

52 each

53 .Ar directory

54 argument, provided it is empty.

55 .Pp

56 Arguments are processed in the order given.

57 In order to remove both a parent directory and a subdirectory

58 of that parent, the subdirectory

59 must be specified first so the parent directory

60 is empty when

61 .Nm

62 tries to remove it.

63 .Pp

64 The following option is available:

65 .Bl -tag -width indent

66 .It Fl p

67 Each

68 .Ar directory

69 argument is treated as a pathname of which all

70 components will be removed, if they are empty,

71 starting with the last most component.

72 (See

73 .Xr rm 1

74 for fully non-discriminant recursive removal.)

75 .El

76 .Pp

77 The

78 .Nm

79 utility exits with one of the following values:

80 .Bl -tag -width Ds

81 .It Li \&0

82 Each directory entry specified by a dir operand

83 referred to an empty directory and was removed

84 successfully.

85 .It Li \&>\&0

86 An error occurred.

87 .El

88 .Sh SEE ALSO

89 .Xr rm 1

90 .Sh STANDARDS

91 The

92 .Nm

93 command is expected to be

94 .St -p1003.2

95 compatible.

96 .Sh HISTORY

97 A

98 .Nm

99 command appeared in

100 .At v1 .