1.\"- 2.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1993 3.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 4.\" 5.\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by 6.\" the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. 7.\" 8.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 9.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 10.\" are met: 11.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 12.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 13.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 14.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 15.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 16.\" 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 17.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 18.\" without specific prior written permission. 19.\" 20.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 21.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 22.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 23.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 24.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 25.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 26.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 27.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 28.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 29.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 30.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 31.\" 32.Dd March 15, 2013 33.Dt RMDIR 1 34.Os 35.Sh NAME 36.Nm rmdir 37.Nd remove directories 38.Sh SYNOPSIS 39.Nm 40.Op Fl pv 41.Ar directory ... 42.Sh DESCRIPTION 43The 44.Nm 45utility removes the directory entry specified by 46each 47.Ar directory 48argument, provided it is empty. 49.Pp 50Arguments are processed in the order given. 51In order to remove both a parent directory and a subdirectory 52of that parent, the subdirectory 53must be specified first so the parent directory 54is empty when 55.Nm 56tries to remove it. 57.Pp 58The following option is available: 59.Bl -tag -width indent 60.It Fl p 61Each 62.Ar directory 63argument is treated as a pathname of which all 64components will be removed, if they are empty, 65starting with the last most component. 66(See 67.Xr rm 1 68for fully non-discriminant recursive removal.) 69.It Fl v 70Be verbose, listing each directory as it is removed. 71.El 72.Sh EXIT STATUS 73The 74.Nm 75utility exits with one of the following values: 76.Bl -tag -width indent 77.It Li 0 78Each directory entry specified by a 79.Ar directory 80operand 81referred to an empty directory and was removed 82successfully. 83.It Li >0 84An error occurred. 85.El 86.Sh EXAMPLES 87Remove the directory 88.Pa foobar , 89if it is empty: 90.Pp 91.Dl $ rmdir foobar 92.Pp 93Remove all directories up to and including 94.Pa cow , 95stopping at the first non-empty directory (if any): 96.Pp 97.Dl $ rmdir -p cow/horse/monkey 98.Sh SEE ALSO 99.Xr rm 1 100.Sh STANDARDS 101The 102.Nm 103utility is expected to be 104.St -p1003.2 105compatible. 106.Sh HISTORY 107A 108.Nm 109command appeared in 110.At v1 . 111