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 following option is available:
-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 recursive removal.)