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                     18: .\"     @(#)rmdir.1    6.3 (Berkeley) 7/24/90
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                     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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