1 /* rmdir -- remove directories
2 Copyright (C) 90, 91, 1995-1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
4 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
5 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
6 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
9 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
10 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
11 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
12 GNU General Public License for more details.
14 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
15 along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
16 Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */
19 -p, --parent Remove any parent dirs that are explicitly mentioned
20 in an argument, if they become empty after the
21 argument file is removed.
23 David MacKenzie <djm@ai.mit.edu> */
28 #include <sys/types.h>
33 /* The official name of this program (e.g., no `g' prefix). */
34 #define PROGRAM_NAME "rmdir"
36 #define AUTHORS "David MacKenzie"
46 void strip_trailing_slashes ();
48 /* The name this program was run with. */
51 /* If nonzero, remove empty parent directories. */
52 static int empty_paths
;
54 /* If nonzero, don't treat failure to remove a nonempty directory
56 static int ignore_fail_on_non_empty
;
58 /* If nonzero, output a diagnostic for every directory processed. */
61 static struct option
const longopts
[] =
63 /* Don't name this `--force' because it's not close enough in meaning
64 to e.g. rm's -f option. */
65 {"ignore-fail-on-non-empty", no_argument
, NULL
, CHAR_MAX
+ 1},
67 {"path", no_argument
, NULL
, 'p'},
68 {"parents", no_argument
, NULL
, 'p'},
69 {"verbose", no_argument
, NULL
, 14},
70 {GETOPT_HELP_OPTION_DECL
},
71 {GETOPT_VERSION_OPTION_DECL
},
75 /* Remove any empty parent directories of PATH.
76 If PATH contains slash characters, at least one of them
77 (beginning with the rightmost) is replaced with a NUL byte. */
80 remove_parents (char *path
)
87 slash
= strrchr (path
, '/');
90 /* Remove any characters after the slash, skipping any extra
92 while (slash
> path
&& *slash
== '/')
96 /* Give a diagnostic for each attempted removal if --verbose. */
98 error (0, errno
, _("removing directory, %s"), path
);
104 /* Give a diagnostic and set fail if not --ignore. */
105 if (!ignore_fail_on_non_empty
|| errno
!= ENOTEMPTY
)
107 error (0, errno
, "%s", path
);
120 fprintf (stderr
, _("Try `%s --help' for more information.\n"),
124 printf (_("Usage: %s [OPTION]... DIRECTORY...\n"), program_name
);
126 Remove the DIRECTORY(ies), if they are empty.\n\
128 --ignore-fail-on-non-empty\n\
129 ignore each failure that is solely because the\n\
130 directory is non-empty\n\
131 -p, --parents remove explicit parent directories if being emptied\n\
132 --verbose output a diagnostic for every directory processed\n\
133 --help display this help and exit\n\
134 --version output version information and exit\n\
136 puts (_("\nReport bugs to <bug-fileutils@gnu.org>."));
143 main (int argc
, char **argv
)
148 program_name
= argv
[0];
149 setlocale (LC_ALL
, "");
150 bindtextdomain (PACKAGE
, LOCALEDIR
);
151 textdomain (PACKAGE
);
155 while ((optc
= getopt_long (argc
, argv
, "p", longopts
, NULL
)) != -1)
159 case 0: /* Long option. */
165 ignore_fail_on_non_empty
= 1;
170 case_GETOPT_HELP_CHAR
;
171 case_GETOPT_VERSION_CHAR (PROGRAM_NAME
, AUTHORS
);
179 error (0, 0, _("too few arguments"));
183 for (; optind
< argc
; ++optind
)
186 char *dir
= argv
[optind
];
188 /* Stripping slashes is harmless for rmdir;
189 if the arg is not a directory, it will fail with ENOTDIR. */
190 strip_trailing_slashes (dir
);
192 /* Give a diagnostic for each attempted removal if --verbose. */
194 error (0, errno
, _("removing directory, %s"), dir
);
200 if (ignore_fail_on_non_empty
201 && (errno
== ENOTEMPTY
|| errno
== EEXIST
))
204 error (0, errno
, "%s", dir
);
207 else if (empty_paths
)
209 errors
+= remove_parents (dir
);
213 exit (errors
== 0 ? EXIT_SUCCESS
: EXIT_FAILURE
);