.\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE! It was generated by help2man 1.47.3. .TH RMDIR "1" "September 2020" "GNU coreutils 8.32" "User Commands" .SH NAME rmdir \- remove empty directories .SH SYNOPSIS .B rmdir [\fI\,OPTION\/\fR]... \fI\,DIRECTORY\/\fR... .SH DESCRIPTION .\" Add any additional description here .PP Remove the DIRECTORY(ies), if they are empty. .HP \fB\-\-ignore\-fail\-on\-non\-empty\fR .IP ignore each failure that is solely because a directory .IP is non\-empty .TP \fB\-p\fR, \fB\-\-parents\fR remove DIRECTORY and its ancestors; e.g., 'rmdir \fB\-p\fR a/b/c' is similar to 'rmdir a/b/c a/b a' .TP \fB\-v\fR, \fB\-\-verbose\fR output a diagnostic for every directory processed .TP \fB\-\-help\fR display this help and exit .TP \fB\-\-version\fR output version information and exit .SH AUTHOR Written by David MacKenzie. .SH "REPORTING BUGS" GNU coreutils online help: .br Report any translation bugs to .SH COPYRIGHT Copyright \(co 2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later . .br This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. .SH "SEE ALSO" rmdir(2) .PP .br Full documentation .br or available locally via: info \(aq(coreutils) rmdir invocation\(aq