1.\" $NetBSD: rmdir.1,v 1.16 2016/08/12 02:30:37 sevan Exp $ 2.\" 3.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1993 4.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 5.\" 6.\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by 7.\" the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. 8.\" 9.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 10.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 11.\" are met: 12.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 13.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 14.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 15.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 16.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 17.\" 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 18.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 19.\" without specific prior written permission. 20.\" 21.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 22.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 23.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 24.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 25.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 26.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 27.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 28.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 29.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 30.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 31.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 32.\" 33.\" @(#)rmdir.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 5/31/93 34.\" 35.Dd August 12, 2016 36.Dt RMDIR 1 37.Os 38.Sh NAME 39.Nm rmdir 40.Nd remove directories 41.Sh SYNOPSIS 42.Nm 43.Op Fl p 44.Ar directory ... 45.Sh DESCRIPTION 46The rmdir utility removes the directory entry specified by 47each 48.Ar directory 49argument, provided it is empty. 50.Pp 51Arguments are processed in the order given. 52In order to remove both a parent directory and a subdirectory 53of that parent, the subdirectory 54must be specified first so the parent directory 55is empty when 56.Nm 57tries to remove it. 58.Pp 59The following option is available: 60.Bl -tag -width Ds 61.It Fl p 62Each 63.Ar directory 64argument is treated as a pathname of which all 65components will be removed, if they are empty, 66starting with the last most component. 67(See 68.Xr rm 1 69for fully non-discriminant recursive removal.) 70.El 71.Sh EXIT STATUS 72The 73.Nm 74utility exits with one of the following values: 75.Bl -tag -width Ds 76.It Li \&0 77Each directory entry specified by a dir operand 78referred to an empty directory and was removed 79successfully. 80.It Li \&\*[Gt]\&0 81An error occurred. 82.El 83.Sh SEE ALSO 84.Xr rm 1 85.Sh STANDARDS 86The 87.Nm 88utility is expected to be 89.St -p1003.2 90compatible. 91.Sh HISTORY 92An 93.Nm 94utility appeared in 95.At v1 . 96