This manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual. The Linux implementation of this interface

       The definition of an empty directory is one that contains, at most, directory entries for  dot  and  dot-
       dot.

       Default.

       Default.

       Thefollowingsectionsareinformative.

       Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form from IEEE Std 1003.1-2017, Standard
       for Information  Technology  --  Portable  Operating  System  Interface  (POSIX),  The  Open  Group  Base
       Specifications  Issue  7, 2018 Edition, Copyright (C) 2018 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics
       Engineers, Inc and The Open Group.  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.opengroup.org/unix/online.html .

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IEEE/The Open Group                                   2017                                         RMDIR(1POSIX)

       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 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.1‐2017, Section8.2, InternationalizationVariables 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.

       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.

       The following exit values shall be returned:

        0    Each directory entry specified by a dir operand was removed successfully.

       >0    An error occurred.

       None.

       None.

       None.

       rmdir — remove directories

       The following operand shall be supported:

       dir       A pathname of an empty directory to be removed.

       The  rmdir  utility  shall  conform to the Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1‐2017, Section12.2, UtilitySyntaxGuidelines.

       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)

       None.

       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.

       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.1‐2017.

rm

       The  Base  Definitions  volume  of  POSIX.1‐2017, Chapter8, EnvironmentVariables, Section12.2, UtilitySyntaxGuidelines

       The System Interfaces volume of POSIX.1‐2017, remove(), rmdir(), unlink()

       The standard error shall be used only for diagnostic messages.

       Not used.

       Not used.

       rmdir [-p]dir...