[kanchilug] 1D1C - rmdir

  • From: Dhanasekar <tkdhanasekar@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: ilugc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, kanchilug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2023 06:00:00 +0530

rmdir - remove empty directories

To remove a single empty directory
$ rmdir ~/Downloads/files

To remove multiple directories using rmdir
$ rmdir ~/Downloads/old_data1 old_data2 old_data3

To print verbose output
$ rmdir -v ~/Downloads/files

To suppress fail on non-empty message
$ rmdir -v --ignore-fail-on-non-empty old_data1 old_data2 old_data3

To remove directory and its parent directories
$ rmdir -v -p files/data/project/

To remove multiple directories with dir-
$ rmdir -v dir-*



regards,
T.Dhanasekar

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