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rmdir — remove directories

rmdir directory ...

The rmdir utility removes the directory entry specified by each directory argument, provided it is empty.

Arguments are processed in the order given. In order to remove both a parent directory and a subdirectory of that parent, the subdirectory must be specified first so the parent directory is empty when rmdir tries to remove it.

The rmdir utility exits with one of the following values:

Each directory entry specified by a dir operand referred to an empty directory and was removed successfully.
An error occurred.

rm(1)

The rmdir command is expected to be IEEE Std 1003.2 (“POSIX.2”) compatible.

4.4BSD-Lite2 May 31, 1993 RMDIR(1)