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 Documented in Volume 1 of the UNIX Programmers Manual.

 % rmdir direc-name
  will remove the empty directory named direc-name. If it is non-empty,
  see the example below for rm.

 % rm -r direc1
  removes subdirectory direc1 in a recursive fashion, (i.e. the directory
  and all of its files and subdirectories) whether it is empty or not.

  Useful for file space housekeeping.

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