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- NAME
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rmdir - remove empty directories
- SYNOPSIS
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rmdir [-p] [-parents] [-help] [-version] dir...
- DESCRIPTION
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This documentation is no longer being maintained and may be inaccurate
or incomplete. The Texinfo documentation is now the authoritative
source.
This manual page documents the GNU version of rmdir. rmdir removes
each given empty directory. If any non-option argument does not refer
to an existing empty directory, it is an error.
- OPTIONS
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- -p, -parents
- Remove any parent directories that are explicitly
mentioned in an argument, if they become empty after the argument
file is removed.
- -help
- Print a usage message on standard output and exit successfully.
- -version
- Print version information on standard output then exit
successfully.
- EXAMPLES
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