1.\" Copyright (c) 1990 The Regents of the University of California. 2.\" 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 6.5 (Berkeley) 6/27/91 36.\" 37.Vx 38.Dd June 27, 1991 39.Dt RMDIR 1 40.Os 41.Sh NAME 42.Nm rmdir 43.Nd remove directories 44.Sh SYNOPSIS 45.Nm rmdir 46.Op Fl p 47.Ar directory ... 48.Sh DESCRIPTION 49The rmdir utility removes the directory entry specified by 50each 51.Ar directory 52argument, provided it is empty. 53.Pp 54Arguments are processed in the order given. 55In order to remove both a parent directory and a subdirectory 56of that parent, the subdirectory 57must be specified first so the parent directory 58is empty when 59.Nm rmdir 60tries to remove it. 61.\" .Pp 62.\" The following option is available: 63.\" .Tw Ds 64.\" .Tp Fl p 65.\" Each 66.\" .Ar directory 67.\" argument is treated as a pathname of which all 68.\" components will be removed, if they are empty, 69.\" starting with the last most component. 70.\" (See 71.\" .Xr rm 1 72.\" for fully non-discriminant recursive removal). 73.Pp 74The 75.Nm rmdir 76utility exits with one of the following values: 77.Tw Ds 78.Tp Li \&0 79Each directory entry specified by a dir operand 80referred to an empty directory and was removed 81successfully. 82.Tp Li \&>\&0 83An error occurred. 84.Tp 85.Sh SEE ALSO 86.Xr rm 1 87.Sh STANDARDS 88The 89.Nm rmdir 90function is expected to be POSIX 1003.2 compatible. 91