One Linux command per day (7): rmdir command

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1 Article Introduction

This article describes the rmdir command under Linux.

2. Development platform

Linux Systems

3. Reading instructions

No

4 Article body

The RMDIR/RD command is to delete an empty directory that must be empty before a directory is deleted. RmDir only empty folders can be removed. To recursively folder and all of its contents, use the RM command.

4.1 Command 4.1.1 Command

Command: rmdir [options] Directory
Directory Features: Change command to remove one or more subdirectory entries from a directory, and to delete a directory must also have write access to the parent directory.

4.1.2 Parameters

• -p recursively deletes the directory dirname, which is also deleted when its parent directory is empty after the subdirectory is deleted (see 4.2.2). If the entire path is deleted or a partial path is reserved for some reason, the system displays the appropriate information on the standard output.
• -V,--verbose show instruction execution process

4.2 Command Instance 4.2.1 rmdir cannot delete a non-empty directory

4.2.2 subdirectory is deleted and is empty directory, can be recursively deleted

Command: rmdir-p test22/test222/test2222

5 References

1, the concept of this part of the reference to Wikipedia.
2, this article to a large extent refer to the "one Linux command per day (6): RmDir command"

One Linux command per day (7): rmdir command