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1.1     ! root        1: .\" Copyright (c) 1990 The Regents of the University of California.
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        !            16: .\" MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
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        !            18: .\"     @(#)rmdir.1    6.3 (Berkeley) 7/24/90
        !            19: .\"
        !            20: .Dd July 24, 1990
        !            21: .Dt RMDIR 1
        !            22: .Os BSD 4.4
        !            23: .Sh NAME
        !            24: .Nm rmdir
        !            25: .Nd remove directories
        !            26: .Sh SYNOPSIS
        !            27: .Nm rmdir
        !            28: .Op Fl p
        !            29: .Ar directory ...
        !            30: .Sh DESCRIPTION
        !            31: The rmdir utility removes the directory entry specified by
        !            32: each
        !            33: .Ar directory
        !            34: argument, provided it is empty.
        !            35: .Pp
        !            36: Arguments are processed in the order given.
        !            37: In order to remove both a parent directory and a subdirectory
        !            38: of that parent, the subdirectory
        !            39: must be specified first so the parent directory
        !            40: is empty when
        !            41: .Nm rmdir
        !            42: tries to remove it.
        !            43: .\" .Pp
        !            44: .\" The following option is available:
        !            45: .\" .Tw Ds
        !            46: .\" .Tp Fl p
        !            47: .\" Each
        !            48: .\" .Ar directory
        !            49: .\" argument is treated as a pathname of which all
        !            50: .\" components will be removed, if they are empty,
        !            51: .\" starting with the last most component.
        !            52: .\" (See
        !            53: .\" .Xr rm 1
        !            54: .\" for fully non-discriminant recursive removal).
        !            55: .Pp
        !            56: The
        !            57: .Nm rmdir
        !            58: utility exits with one of the following values:
        !            59: .Tw Ds
        !            60: .Tp Li \&0
        !            61: Each directory entry specified by a dir operand
        !            62: referred to an empty directory and was removed
        !            63: successfully.
        !            64: .Tp Li \&>\&0
        !            65: An error occurred.
        !            66: .Tp
        !            67: .Sh SEE ALSO
        !            68: .Xr rm 1
        !            69: .Sh STANDARDS
        !            70: The
        !            71: .Nm rmdir
        !            72: function is expected to be POSIX 1003.2 compatible.

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