1 /* rmdir -- remove directories
2 Copyright (C) 90, 91, 1995-2002, 2004 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>
35 /* The official name of this program (e.g., no `g' prefix). */
36 #define PROGRAM_NAME "rmdir"
38 #define AUTHORS "David MacKenzie"
48 /* The name this program was run with. */
51 /* If true, remove empty parent directories. */
52 static bool empty_paths
;
54 /* If true, don't treat failure to remove a nonempty directory
56 static bool ignore_fail_on_non_empty
;
58 /* If true, output a diagnostic for every directory processed. */
61 /* For long options that have no equivalent short option, use a
62 non-character as a pseudo short option, starting with CHAR_MAX + 1. */
65 IGNORE_FAIL_ON_NON_EMPTY_OPTION
= CHAR_MAX
+ 1
68 static struct option
const longopts
[] =
70 /* Don't name this `--force' because it's not close enough in meaning
71 to e.g. rm's -f option. */
72 {"ignore-fail-on-non-empty", no_argument
, NULL
,
73 IGNORE_FAIL_ON_NON_EMPTY_OPTION
},
75 {"path", no_argument
, NULL
, 'p'},
76 {"parents", no_argument
, NULL
, 'p'},
77 {"verbose", no_argument
, NULL
, 'v'},
78 {GETOPT_HELP_OPTION_DECL
},
79 {GETOPT_VERSION_OPTION_DECL
},
83 /* Return true if ERROR_NUMBER is one of the values associated
84 with a failed rmdir due to non-empty target directory. */
87 errno_rmdir_non_empty (int error_number
)
89 return (error_number
== RMDIR_ERRNO_NOT_EMPTY
);
92 /* Remove any empty parent directories of PATH.
93 If PATH contains slash characters, at least one of them
94 (beginning with the rightmost) is replaced with a NUL byte.
95 Return true if successful. */
98 remove_parents (char *path
)
103 strip_trailing_slashes (path
);
106 slash
= strrchr (path
, '/');
109 /* Remove any characters after the slash, skipping any extra
111 while (slash
> path
&& *slash
== '/')
115 /* Give a diagnostic for each attempted removal if --verbose. */
117 error (0, 0, _("removing directory, %s"), path
);
119 ok
= (rmdir (path
) == 0);
123 /* Stop quietly if --ignore-fail-on-non-empty. */
124 if (ignore_fail_on_non_empty
125 && errno_rmdir_non_empty (errno
))
131 error (0, errno
, "%s", quote (path
));
142 if (status
!= EXIT_SUCCESS
)
143 fprintf (stderr
, _("Try `%s --help' for more information.\n"),
147 printf (_("Usage: %s [OPTION]... DIRECTORY...\n"), program_name
);
149 Remove the DIRECTORY(ies), if they are empty.\n\
151 --ignore-fail-on-non-empty\n\
152 ignore each failure that is solely because a directory\n\
156 -p, --parents remove DIRECTORY, then try to remove each directory\n\
157 component of that path name. E.g., `rmdir -p a/b/c' is\n\
158 similar to `rmdir a/b/c a/b a'.\n\
159 -v, --verbose output a diagnostic for every directory processed\n\
161 fputs (HELP_OPTION_DESCRIPTION
, stdout
);
162 fputs (VERSION_OPTION_DESCRIPTION
, stdout
);
163 printf (_("\nReport bugs to <%s>.\n"), PACKAGE_BUGREPORT
);
169 main (int argc
, char **argv
)
174 initialize_main (&argc
, &argv
);
175 program_name
= argv
[0];
176 setlocale (LC_ALL
, "");
177 bindtextdomain (PACKAGE
, LOCALEDIR
);
178 textdomain (PACKAGE
);
180 atexit (close_stdout
);
184 while ((optc
= getopt_long (argc
, argv
, "pv", longopts
, NULL
)) != -1)
191 case IGNORE_FAIL_ON_NON_EMPTY_OPTION
:
192 ignore_fail_on_non_empty
= true;
197 case_GETOPT_HELP_CHAR
;
198 case_GETOPT_VERSION_CHAR (PROGRAM_NAME
, AUTHORS
);
200 usage (EXIT_FAILURE
);
206 error (0, 0, _("missing operand"));
207 usage (EXIT_FAILURE
);
210 for (; optind
< argc
; ++optind
)
212 char *dir
= argv
[optind
];
214 /* Give a diagnostic for each attempted removal if --verbose. */
216 error (0, 0, _("removing directory, %s"), dir
);
218 if (rmdir (dir
) != 0)
220 if (ignore_fail_on_non_empty
221 && errno_rmdir_non_empty (errno
))
224 error (0, errno
, "%s", quote (dir
));
227 else if (empty_paths
)
229 ok
&= remove_parents (dir
);
233 exit (ok
? EXIT_SUCCESS
: EXIT_FAILURE
);