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rmdir(1)							      rmdir(1)

NAME
       rmdir - Removes a directory

SYNOPSIS
       rmdir [-p] directory...

STANDARDS
       Interfaces  documented on this reference page conform to industry stan‐
       dards as follows:

       rmdir:  XCU5.0

       Refer to the standards(5) reference page	 for  more  information	 about
       industry standards and associated tags.

OPTIONS
       Removes	all  directories in a path name.  For each directory argument,
       the directory entry it names is removed.

	      If the directory argument includes more than one path name  com‐
	      ponent, effects equivalent to the following command occur: rmdir
	      -p $(dirname directory)

	      That is, rmdir recursively removes each directory	 in  the  path
	      name.

OPERANDS
       The path name of an empty directory to be removed.

DESCRIPTION
       The  rmdir  command removes a directory from the system.	 The directory
       must be empty before you can remove it, and you must have write permis‐
       sion  in	 its  parent  directory.   Use	the ls -al command to see if a
       directory is empty.

       If a directory and a subdirectory of that directory are specified in  a
       single  invocation  of rmdir, the subdirectory must be specified before
       the parent directory so that the parent directory will  be  empty  when
       rmdir tries to remove it.

RESTRICTIONS
       A  directory  must be empty before you can remove it, and you must have
       write permission in its parent directory.  If the -p  option  is	 used,
       all  directories	 in  the  path	must be empty except for the directory
       being recursively removed.

EXIT STATUS
       The following exit values are returned:	Each  directory	 specified  by
       directory operand was successfully removed.  An error occurred.

EXAMPLES
       To  empty  and  remove  a  directory, enter: rm mydir/* mydir/.*	 rmdir
       mydir

	      This removes the contents	 of  mydir,  then  removes  the	 empty
	      directory. The rm command displays an error message about trying
	      to remove the directories . (dot) and ..	(dot  dot),  and  then
	      rmdir removes them.

	      Note  that  rm  mydir/* mydir/.*	first removes files with names
	      that do not begin with a (dot), then those with  names  that  do
	      begin with a (dot).  You may not realize that the directory con‐
	      tains file names that begin with a (dot) because the ls  command
	      does  not normally list them unless you use the -a option to see
	      the files whose names begin with a (dot).	 To remove all of  the
	      directories in the path name a/b/c, enter: rmdir -p a/b/c

	      Use a command like this one if directory a in the current direc‐
	      tory is empty except that it contains a directory b and  a/b  is
	      empty except that it contains a directory c.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
       The following environment variables affect the execution of rmdir: Pro‐
       vides a default value for the internationalization variables  that  are
       unset  or  null. If LANG is unset or null, the corresponding value from
       the default locale is used. If any of  the  internationalization	 vari‐
       ables contain an invalid setting, the utility behaves as if none of the
       variables had been defined.  If set to a non-empty string value,	 over‐
       rides  the  values  of  all  the	 other internationalization variables.
       Determines the locale for the interpretation of sequences of  bytes  of
       text  data as characters (for example, single-byte as opposed to multi‐
       byte characters in arguments).  Determines the locale  for  the	format
       and  contents of diagnostic messages written to standard error.	Deter‐
       mines the location of message catalogues for the processing of  LC_MES‐
       SAGES.

SEE ALSO
       Commands:  mkdir(1), ls(1), rm(1)

       Functions:  rmdir(2), unlink(2), remove(3)

       Standards:  standards(5)

								      rmdir(1)
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