NAME

rmdir − remove an empty directory

SYNOPSIS

rmdir directory ... 

DESCRIPTION

Rmdir removes an empty directory. 

Once the directory has been removed, it is destroyed.  Removal of a directory requires write permission in that directory. 

Rmdir removes the named directories, which must be empty.  Rmdir will otherwise report that the named directory is not empty. 

Rmdir runs as a "setuid" root program. 

EXAMPLE

rmdir dirname

removes the empty directory. 

SEE ALSO

rm(1), unlink(2)

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