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[IEEE Std1003.2-1992 (``POSIX.2'')]

RMDIR(1)                   OpenBSD Reference Manual                   RMDIR(1)

NAME
     rmdir - remove directories



SYNOPSIS
     rmdir [-p] directory [...]

DESCRIPTION
     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 options are as follows:

     -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 re-
             cursive 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.

SEE ALSO
     rm(1),  rmdir(2)

STANDARDS
     The rmdir utility is expected to be IEEE Std1003.2 (``POSIX.2'') compati-
     ble.

OpenBSD 2.6                      May 31, 1993                                1

Source: OpenBSD 2.6 man pages. Copyright: Portions are copyrighted by BERKELEY
SOFTWARE DESIGN, INC., The Regents of the University of California, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, Free Software Foundation, FreeBSD Inc., and others.



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