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coreutils: rmdir invocation

 
 12.7 ‘rmdir’: Remove empty directories
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 ‘rmdir’ removes empty directories.  Synopsis:
 
      rmdir [OPTION]... DIRECTORY...
 
    If any DIRECTORY argument does not refer to an existing empty
 directory, it is an error.
 
    The program accepts the following options.  Also see ⇒Common
 options.
 
 ‘--ignore-fail-on-non-empty’
      Ignore each failure to remove a directory that is solely because
      the directory is non-empty.
 
 ‘-p’
 ‘--parents’
      Remove DIRECTORY, then try to remove each component of DIRECTORY.
      So, for example, ‘rmdir -p a/b/c’ is similar to ‘rmdir a/b/c a/b
      a’.  As such, it fails if any of those directories turns out not to
      be empty.  Use the ‘--ignore-fail-on-non-empty’ option to make it
      so such a failure does not evoke a diagnostic and does not cause
      ‘rmdir’ to exit unsuccessfully.
 
 ‘-v’
 ‘--verbose’
      Give a diagnostic for each successful removal.  DIRECTORY is
      removed.
 
    ⇒rm invocation, for how to remove non-empty directories
 (recursively).
 
    An exit status of zero indicates success, and a nonzero value
 indicates failure.
 

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