Hello folks,
Newb question here. I'm trying to clean up some stuff on an OpenBSD 4.1 build. I've checked the man pages for rmdir, and this is all it contains:
# man rmdir
RMDIR(1) OpenBSD Reference Manual RMDIR(1)
NAME
rmdir - remove directories
SYNOPSIS
rmdir [-p] directory [...]
DESCRIPTION
The rmdir utility removes the directory entry specified by each directory
argument, provided it is empty.
Arguments are processed in the order given. In order to remove both a
parent directory and a subdirectory of that parent, the subdirectory must
be specified first so the parent directory is empty when rmdir tries to
remove it.
The options are as follows:
-p Each directory argument is treated as a pathname of which all
components will be removed, if they are empty, starting with the
last most component. (See rm(1) for fully non-discriminant re-
cursive removal.)
The rmdir utility exits with one of the following values:
0 Each directory argument referred to an empty directory and was
removed successfully.
>0 An error occurred.
EXAMPLES
$ rmdir foobar
Remove the directory foobar if it is empty.
$ rmdir -p cow/horse/monkey
Remove all directories up to and including cow, stopping at the first
non-empty directory (if any).
SEE ALSO
rm(1), rmdir(2)
STANDARDS
The rmdir utility is expected to be IEEE Std 1003.2 (``POSIX.2'') compat-
ible.
HISTORY
A rmdir command appeared in Version 1 AT&T UNIX.
OpenBSD 4.1 May 31, 1993 1
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I tried rmdir -p, then the directory name, but still get the message Directory not empty:
# rmdir -p src
rmdir: src: Directory not empty
#
The src directory contains over 20 folders. I really don't want to empty each one individually.
Am I using rmdir wrong, or is there another command to clean up directories that contain files?
Any help is much appreciated.
Ted
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