rmdir(1) removes directories from the filesystem.
The directory must be empty before it can be removed. The syntax is simply:
This example will remove the hejaz
subdirectory in the current working directory:
If that directory does not exist, rmdir will tell you.
You can also specify a full path to a directory to remove, as this example
shows:
That example will try to remove the
hejaz directory inside the
/tmp directory.
You can also remove a directory and all of its parent directories by
passing the -p option.
This will first try to remove the
hejaz directory inside
/tmp. If that is successful, it
will try to remove /tmp.
rmdir will continue this until an error is encountered
or the entire tree specified is removed.