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📛 NAME

rmdir — remove empty directories

🚀 Quick Reference

Use Case	Command	Description
🗑️ Remove empty directory	rmdir directory	Remove a single empty directory
📂 Remove directory and its empty parents	rmdir -p path/to/dir	Remove empty directory, then remove each empty parent component
🚫 Ignore errors on non-empty directories	rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty directory	Exit successfully even if a directory is not empty (skip it)
📢 Verbose removal	rmdir -v directory	Print a diagnostic for each successful removal
❌ Remove non-empty directory (use rm)	rm -r directory	Recursively delete directories and their contents

🗑️ 12.7 'rmdir': Remove empty directories

📋 Synopsis

rmdir [OPTION]... DIRECTORY...

If any DIRECTORY argument does not refer to an existing empty directory, it is an error.

⚙️ Options

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.

See rm invocation for how to remove non-empty directories (recursively).

An exit status of zero indicates success, and a nonzero value indicates failure.

📛 NAME 🚀 Quick Reference 🗑️ 12.7 'rmdir': Remove empty directories