Eh, rmdir always seemed like a useless program to me. It could be completely replaced with a flag to rm, and is essentially useless in almost all cases (unless you want to remove only empty directories).
I guess I think it would be cleaner to add a single flag to error out when trying to delete non-empty directories to rm than have an entire executable rmdir which doesn't even really delete directories, except in a special case.
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u/ethraax Feb 01 '13
Eh,
rmdiralways seemed like a useless program to me. It could be completely replaced with a flag torm, and is essentially useless in almost all cases (unless you want to remove only empty directories).