Rmdir

rmdir is a command used to remove empty directories. Non-empty directories need to be emptied first. Another approach to removing non-empty directories is using the "rm -r" command.

Many people choose to alias the rmdir command to rd because that's what it was called in DOS. This is done differently depending on your shell: $ alias rd=rmdir    # For sh, ksh, bash, etc. $ alias rd rmdir    # For csh, tcsh, etc.

= Provided by =

Most (all?) Linux distributions incorporate this from the GNU Coreutils: man page

= Related Commands =
 * link - Make hard links.
 * ln - Make hard or soft links
 * mkdir - Make directory nodes.
 * mkfifo - Make a named pipe directory entry (aka fifo)
 * mknod - Make a device node, or a socket node.
 * readlink - Make a canonical name.
 * unlink - Remove directory entries (other than for subdirectories)

= See Also =
 * file
 * device
 * Directory
 * rm - remove a file