rmdir(1)

rmdir1

Remove empty directories

Usage

rmdir [OPTION] ... DIRECTORY ...

Overview

Remove the DIRECTORY(ies), if they are empty.

--ignore-fail-on-non-empty

ignore each failure to remove a non-empty directory

-p, --parents

remove DIRECTORY and its ancestors; e.g., 'rmdir -p a/b' is similar to 'rmdir a/b a'

-v, --verbose

output a diagnostic for every directory processed

--help

display this help and exit

--version

output version information and exit

Releases

19 releases since Debian 1.1 (Buzz); the text changed 15 times.

  1. 1.1
  2. 1.2–2.1
  3. 2.2
  4. 3.0
  5. 3.1
  6. 4.0
  7. 5.0
  8. 6.0
  9. 7
  10. 8
  11. 9
  12. 10
  13. 11
  14. 12
  15. 13
  16. Arch

--ignore-fail-on-non-empty since Debian 12 (Bookworm); --verbose since Debian 2.2 (Potato); -v since Debian 3.0 (Woody).

Author

Written by David MacKenzie.

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From coreutils 9.12-2 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.