1.\" $NetBSD: rmdir.1,v 1.14 2002/02/08 01:21:59 ross 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. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software 18.\" must display the following acknowledgement: 19.\" This product includes software developed by the University of 20.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors. 21.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 22.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 23.\" without specific prior written permission. 24.\" 25.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 26.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 27.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 28.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 29.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 30.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 31.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 32.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 33.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 34.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 35.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 36.\" 37.\" @(#)rmdir.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 5/31/93 38.\" 39.Dd May 31, 1993 40.Dt RMDIR 1 41.Os 42.Sh NAME 43.Nm rmdir 44.Nd remove directories 45.Sh SYNOPSIS 46.Nm 47.Op Fl p 48.Ar directory ... 49.Sh DESCRIPTION 50The rmdir utility removes the directory entry specified by 51each 52.Ar directory 53argument, provided it is empty. 54.Pp 55Arguments are processed in the order given. 56In order to remove both a parent directory and a subdirectory 57of that parent, the subdirectory 58must be specified first so the parent directory 59is empty when 60.Nm 61tries to remove it. 62.Pp 63The following option is available: 64.Bl -tag -width Ds 65.It Fl p 66Each 67.Ar directory 68argument is treated as a pathname of which all 69components will be removed, if they are empty, 70starting with the last most component. 71(See 72.Xr rm 1 73for fully non-discriminant recursive removal.) 74.El 75.Sh EXIT STATUS 76The 77.Nm 78utility exits with one of the following values: 79.Bl -tag -width Ds 80.It Li \&0 81Each directory entry specified by a dir operand 82referred to an empty directory and was removed 83successfully. 84.It Li \&\*[Gt]\&0 85An error occurred. 86.El 87.Sh SEE ALSO 88.Xr rm 1 89.Sh STANDARDS 90The 91.Nm 92utility is expected to be 93.St -p1003.2 94compatible. 95