.\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE! It was generated by help2man 1.49.2. .TH RMDIR "1" "August 2022" "GNU coreutils 8.32" "User Commands" .SH NAME rmdir \- manual page for rmdir 8.32 .SH SYNOPSIS .B rmdir [\fI\,OPTION\/\fR]... \fI\,DIRECTORY\/\fR... .SH DESCRIPTION Remove the DIRECTORY(ies), if they are empty. .HP \fB\-\-ignore\-fail\-on\-non\-empty\fR .TP ignore each failure that is solely because a directory 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 .PP GNU coreutils online help: Report any translation bugs to Full documentation or available locally via: info '(coreutils) rmdir invocation' .SH AUTHOR Written by David MacKenzie. .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.