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RMDIR(1P) POSIX Programmer's Manual RMDIR(1P)
This manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual. The Linux
implementation of this interface may differ (consult the
corresponding Linux manual page for details of Linux behavior), or
the interface may not be implemented on Linux.
rmdir — remove directories
rmdir [−p] dir...
The rmdir utility shall remove the directory entry specified by each
dir operand.
For each dir operand, the rmdir utility shall perform actions
equivalent to the rmdir() function called with the dir operand as its
only argument.
Directories shall be processed in the order specified. If a directory
and a subdirectory of that directory are specified in a single
invocation of the rmdir utility, the application shall specify the
subdirectory before the parent directory so that the parent directory
will be empty when the rmdir utility tries to remove it.
The rmdir utility shall conform to the Base Definitions volume of
POSIX.1‐2008, Section 12.2, Utility Syntax Guidelines.
The following option shall be supported:
−p Remove all directories in a pathname. For each dir operand:
1. The directory entry it names shall be removed.
2. If the dir operand includes more than one pathname
component, effects equivalent to the following command
shall occur:
rmdir −p $(dirname dir)
The following operand shall be supported:
dir A pathname of an empty directory to be removed.
Not used.
None.
The following environment variables shall affect the execution of
rmdir:
LANG Provide a default value for the internationalization
variables that are unset or null. (See the Base Definitions
volume of POSIX.1‐2008, Section 8.2, Internationalization
Variables for the precedence of internationalization
variables used to determine the values of locale
categories.)
LC_ALL If set to a non-empty string value, override the values of
all the other internationalization variables.
LC_CTYPE Determine the locale for the interpretation of sequences of
bytes of text data as characters (for example, single-byte
as opposed to multi-byte characters in arguments).
LC_MESSAGES
Determine the locale that should be used to affect the
format and contents of diagnostic messages written to
standard error.
NLSPATH Determine the location of message catalogs for the
processing of LC_MESSAGES.
Default.
Not used.
The standard error shall be used only for diagnostic messages.
None.
None.
The following exit values shall be returned:
0 Each directory entry specified by a dir operand was removed
successfully.
>0 An error occurred.
Default.
The following sections are informative.
The definition of an empty directory is one that contains, at most,
directory entries for dot and dot-dot.
If a directory a in the current directory is empty except it contains
a directory b and a/b is empty except it contains a directory c:
rmdir −p a/b/c
removes all three directories.
On historical System V systems, the −p option also caused a message
to be written to the standard output. The message indicated whether
the whole path was removed or whether part of the path remained for
some reason. The STDERR section requires this diagnostic when the
entire path specified by a dir operand is not removed, but does not
allow the status message reporting success to be written as a
diagnostic.
The rmdir utility on System V also included a −s option that
suppressed the informational message output by the −p option. This
option has been omitted because the informational message is not
specified by this volume of POSIX.1‐2008.
None.
rm(1p)
The Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1‐2008, Chapter 8, Environment
Variables, Section 12.2, Utility Syntax Guidelines
The System Interfaces volume of POSIX.1‐2008, remove(3p), rmdir(3p),
unlink(3p)
Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form
from IEEE Std 1003.1, 2013 Edition, Standard for Information
Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open
Group Base Specifications Issue 7, Copyright (C) 2013 by the
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open
Group. (This is POSIX.1-2008 with the 2013 Technical Corrigendum 1
applied.) In the event of any discrepancy between this version and
the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and
The Open Group Standard is the referee document. The original
Standard can be obtained online at http://www.unix.org/online.html .
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