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.\" $DragonFly: src/bin/rmdir/rmdir.1,v 1.4 2005/08/01 01:49:16 swildner Exp $ 38.\" 39.Dd January 24, 2005 40.Dt RMDIR 1 41.Os 42.Sh NAME 43.Nm rmdir 44.Nd remove directories 45.Sh SYNOPSIS 46.Nm 47.Op Fl pv 48.Ar directory ... 49.Sh DESCRIPTION 50The 51.Nm 52utility removes the directory entry specified by 53each 54.Ar directory 55argument, provided it is empty. 56.Pp 57Arguments are processed in the order given. 58In order to remove both a parent directory and a subdirectory 59of that parent, the subdirectory 60must be specified first so the parent directory 61is empty when 62.Nm 63tries to remove it. 64.Pp 65The following option is available: 66.Bl -tag -width indent 67.It Fl p 68Each 69.Ar directory 70argument is treated as a pathname of which all 71components will be removed, if they are empty, 72starting with the last most component. 73(See 74.Xr rm 1 75for fully non-discriminant recursive removal.) 76.It Fl v 77Be verbose, listing each directory as it is removed. 78.El 79.Pp 80The 81.Nm 82utility exits with one of the following values: 83.Bl -tag -width Ds 84.It Li \&0 85Each directory entry specified by a dir operand 86referred to an empty directory and was removed 87successfully. 88.It Li \&>\&0 89An error occurred. 90.El 91.Sh SEE ALSO 92.Xr rm 1 93.Sh STANDARDS 94The 95.Nm 96command is expected to be 97.St -p1003.2 98compatible. 99.Sh HISTORY 100A 101.Nm 102command appeared in 103.At v1 . 104