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PROGRAM:
NAME
rmdir — remove directories
SYNOPSIS
rmdir [−p] dir...
DESCRIPTION
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.
OPTIONS
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)
OPERANDS
The following operand shall be supported:
dir A pathname of an empty directory to be removed.
STDIN
Not used.
INPUT FILES
None.
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
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.
ASYNCHRONOUS EVENTS
Default.
STDOUT
Not used.
STDERR
The standard error shall be used only for diagnostic messages.
OUTPUT FILES
None.
EXTENDED DESCRIPTION
None.
EXIT STATUS
The following exit values shall be returned:
0 Each directory entry specified by a dir operand was removed successfully.
>0 An error occurred.
CONSEQUENCES OF ERRORS
Default.
The following sections are informative.
APPLICATION USAGE
The definition of an empty directory is one that contains, at most, directory entries for
dot and dot-dot.
EXAMPLES
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.
RATIONALE
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.
FUTURE DIRECTIONS
None.
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