Perl Programming/Keywords/rmdir

The rmdir keyword

rmdir removes the directory with the name specified by FILENAME, if the directory is empty. rmdir returns true on success and false otherwise, setting $! (errno). Without FILENAME, contents of $_ are used.

Syntax

  rmdir FILENAME
  rmdir

Examples

rmdir DataDir\abcweb

See also

  • rmtree
chdir closedir mkdir opendir readdir rewinddir rmdir seekdir telldir
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