1.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1993 2.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by 5.\" the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. 6.\" 7.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 8.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 9.\" are met: 10.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 11.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 12.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 13.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 14.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 15.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software 16.\" must display the following acknowledgement: 17.\" This product includes software developed by the University of 18.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors. 19.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 20.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 21.\" without specific prior written permission. 22.\" 23.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 24.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 25.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 26.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 27.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 28.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 29.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 30.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 31.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 32.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 33.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 34.\" 35.\" @(#)rmdir.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 5/31/93 36.\" $Id$ 37.\" 38.Dd May 31, 1993 39.Dt RMDIR 1 40.Os 41.Sh NAME 42.Nm rmdir 43.Nd remove directories 44.Sh SYNOPSIS 45.Nm rmdir 46.Op Fl p 47.Ar directory ... 48.Sh DESCRIPTION 49The rmdir utility removes the directory entry specified by 50each 51.Ar directory 52argument, provided it is empty. 53.Pp 54Arguments are processed in the order given. 55In order to remove both a parent directory and a subdirectory 56of that parent, the subdirectory 57must be specified first so the parent directory 58is empty when 59.Nm rmdir 60tries to remove it. 61.Pp 62The following option is available: 63.Bl -tag -width Ds 64.It Fl p 65Each 66.Ar directory 67argument is treated as a pathname of which all 68components will be removed, if they are empty, 69starting with the last most component. 70(See 71.Xr rm 1 72for fully non-discriminant recursive removal.) 73.El 74.Pp 75The 76.Nm rmdir 77utility exits with one of the following values: 78.Bl -tag -width Ds 79.It Li \&0 80Each directory entry specified by a dir operand 81referred to an empty directory and was removed 82successfully. 83.It Li \&>\&0 84An error occurred. 85.El 86.Sh SEE ALSO 87.Xr rm 1 88.Sh STANDARDS 89The 90.Nm rmdir 91command is expected to be 92.St -p1003.2 93compatible. 94.Sh HISTORY 95A 96.Nm 97command appeared in 98.At v1 . 99