Remove directories (POSIX) rmdir [-p] dir... All supported
hosts. - Remove the entire directory path (consisting only of
directories that are empty except for the named pathname
components) of the directories specified on the command line.
(See example.) - The pathname of an empty directory to be
removed. The rmdir utility removes the directory specified by
each dir operand, provided the directory is empty. The rmdir
utility processes directories in the order they're specified on
the command line. If you specify a parent directory, you should
specify its subdirectory before the parent directory. That way,
the parent directory will be empty when the rmdir utility tries
to remove it. Remove the subdirectory oldfiles from the
/home/fred directory: Remove the directory path dir1/dir2/dir3:
rmdir -p dir1/dir2/dir3 For this command, rmdir first removes
dir1/dir2/dir3. If this is successful, it then removes
dir1/dir2. If this is also successful, it removes dir1. - Each
directory specified by a dir operand referred t