RMDIR(1)

RMDIR(1) 💖

okay bestie, this is the RMDIR page from the User Commands corner of the manual, and it's genuinely so simple it's giving ✨main character✨ energy. no cap.

---

✨ NAME ✨

rmdir — remove empty directories 🧹🫶

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

rmdir [OPTION]... DIRECTORY...

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

Remove the DIRECTORY(ies), if they are empty. that's the whole vibe. it will not be doing any heroic recursion for you, bestie — empty only. periodt. 💅

🌸 OPTIONS 🌸

• --ignore-fail-on-non-empty — ignore each failure to remove a non-empty directory. like, it just doesn't want the drama, so it lets that one go 🙈
• -p, --parents — remove DIRECTORY and its ancestors; e.g., rmdir -p a/b is similar to rmdir a/b a. so it does the whole climb-up-the-family-tree thing for you 🔥
• -v, --verbose — output a diagnostic for every directory processed. it WILL narrate. lowkey obsessed 🎀
• --help — display this help and exit
• --version — output version information and exit

✨ AUTHOR ✨

Written by David MacKenzie. icon 👑

✨ REPORTING BUGS ✨

• Report bugs to: bug-coreutils@gnu.org
• GNU coreutils home page: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
• General help using GNU software: <https://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
• Report any translation bugs to <https://translationproject.org/team/>

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

• rmdir(2)
• Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/rmdir>
• or available locally via: info '(coreutils) rmdir invocation'

Packaged by Ubuntu (9.10-1ubuntu2) Copyright © 2026 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

---

and that's the whole thing, bestie! 🦋 this was GNU coreutils 9.10, dated August 2026, living it up as RMDIR(1) — go forth and yeet those empty dirs, no cap 💜🌸