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3.6 Directory Navigation and Control
3.6.4 rmdir - remove directory
A directory needs to be empty before you can remove it. If it's not, you need to remove the files first. Also, you can't remove a directory if it is your present working directory; you must first change out of it.
Syntax
rmdir directory
Examples
To remove the empty directory /home/frank/data while in /home/frank use:
% rmdir data
or
% rmdir /home/frank/data
Introduction to Unix - 14 AUG 1996
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