.\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE! It was generated by help2man 1.43.3. .TH RMDIR "1" "March 2015" "GNU coreutils 8.23" "User Commands" .SH NAME rmdir \- remove empty directories .SH SYNOPSIS .B rmdir [\fIOPTION\fR]... \fIDIRECTORY\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 rmdir translation bugs to .SH COPYRIGHT Copyright \(co 2014 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 at: .br or available locally via: info \(aq(coreutils) rmdir invocation\(aq