coreutils: rmdir invocation
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1 12.7 ‘rmdir’: Remove empty directories
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1 ‘rmdir’ removes empty directories. Synopsis:
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1 rmdir [OPTION]... DIRECTORY...
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1 If any DIRECTORY argument does not refer to an existing empty
1 directory, it is an error.
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11 The program accepts the following options. Also see ⇒Common
options.
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1 ‘--ignore-fail-on-non-empty’
1 Ignore each failure to remove a directory that is solely because
1 the directory is non-empty.
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1 ‘-p’
1 ‘--parents’
1 Remove DIRECTORY, then try to remove each component of DIRECTORY.
1 So, for example, ‘rmdir -p a/b/c’ is similar to ‘rmdir a/b/c a/b
1 a’. As such, it fails if any of those directories turns out not to
1 be empty. Use the ‘--ignore-fail-on-non-empty’ option to make it
1 so such a failure does not evoke a diagnostic and does not cause
1 ‘rmdir’ to exit unsuccessfully.
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1 ‘-v’
1 ‘--verbose’
1 Give a diagnostic for each successful removal. DIRECTORY is
1 removed.
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1 ⇒rm invocation, for how to remove non-empty directories
1 (recursively).
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1 An exit status of zero indicates success, and a nonzero value
1 indicates failure.
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