1.\"- 2.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1993 3.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 4.\" 5.\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by 6.\" the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. 7.\" 8.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 9.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 10.\" are met: 11.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 12.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 13.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 14.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 15.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 16.\" 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 17.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 18.\" without specific prior written permission. 19.\" 20.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 21.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 22.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 23.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 24.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 25.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 26.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 27.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 28.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 29.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 30.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 31.\" 32.\" @(#)rmdir.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 5/31/93 33.\" 34.Dd March 15, 2013 35.Dt RMDIR 1 36.Os 37.Sh NAME 38.Nm rmdir 39.Nd remove directories 40.Sh SYNOPSIS 41.Nm 42.Op Fl pv 43.Ar directory ... 44.Sh DESCRIPTION 45The 46.Nm 47utility removes the directory entry specified by 48each 49.Ar directory 50argument, provided it is empty. 51.Pp 52Arguments are processed in the order given. 53In order to remove both a parent directory and a subdirectory 54of that parent, the subdirectory 55must be specified first so the parent directory 56is empty when 57.Nm 58tries to remove it. 59.Pp 60The following option is available: 61.Bl -tag -width indent 62.It Fl p 63Each 64.Ar directory 65argument is treated as a pathname of which all 66components will be removed, if they are empty, 67starting with the last most component. 68(See 69.Xr rm 1 70for fully non-discriminant recursive removal.) 71.It Fl v 72Be verbose, listing each directory as it is removed. 73.El 74.Sh EXIT STATUS 75The 76.Nm 77utility exits with one of the following values: 78.Bl -tag -width indent 79.It Li 0 80Each directory entry specified by a 81.Ar directory 82operand 83referred to an empty directory and was removed 84successfully. 85.It Li >0 86An error occurred. 87.El 88.Sh EXAMPLES 89Remove the directory 90.Pa foobar , 91if it is empty: 92.Pp 93.Dl $ rmdir foobar 94.Pp 95Remove all directories up to and including 96.Pa cow , 97stopping at the first non-empty directory (if any): 98.Pp 99.Dl $ rmdir -p cow/horse/monkey 100.Sh SEE ALSO 101.Xr rm 1 102.Sh STANDARDS 103The 104.Nm 105utility is expected to be 106.St -p1003.2 107compatible. 108.Sh HISTORY 109A 110.Nm 111command appeared in 112.At v1 . 113