1.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1993 2.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by 5.\" the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. 6.\" 7.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 8.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 9.\" are met: 10.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 11.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 12.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 13.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 14.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 15.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software 16.\" must display the following acknowledgement: 17.\" This product includes software developed by the University of 18.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors. 19.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 20.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 21.\" without specific prior written permission. 22.\" 23.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 24.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 25.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 26.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 27.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 28.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 29.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 30.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 31.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 32.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 33.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 34.\" 35.\" @(#)rmdir.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 5/31/93 36.\" $FreeBSD: src/bin/rmdir/rmdir.1,v 1.8.2.1 2000/12/08 13:34:40 ru Exp $ 37.\" 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 49The 50.Nm 51utility removes the directory entry specified by 52each 53.Ar directory 54argument, provided it is empty. 55.Pp 56Arguments are processed in the order given. 57In order to remove both a parent directory and a subdirectory 58of that parent, the subdirectory 59must be specified first so the parent directory 60is empty when 61.Nm 62tries to remove it. 63.Pp 64The following option is available: 65.Bl -tag -width indent 66.It Fl p 67Each 68.Ar directory 69argument is treated as a pathname of which all 70components will be removed, if they are empty, 71starting with the last most component. 72(See 73.Xr rm 1 74for fully non-discriminant recursive removal.) 75.El 76.Pp 77The 78.Nm 79utility exits with one of the following values: 80.Bl -tag -width Ds 81.It Li \&0 82Each directory entry specified by a dir operand 83referred to an empty directory and was removed 84successfully. 85.It Li \&>\&0 86An error occurred. 87.El 88.Sh SEE ALSO 89.Xr rm 1 90.Sh STANDARDS 91The 92.Nm 93command is expected to be 94.St -p1003.2 95compatible. 96.Sh HISTORY 97A 98.Nm 99command appeared in 100.At v1 . 101