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title: "rclone rmdirs"
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description: "Remove empty directories under the path."
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slug: rclone_rmdirs
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url: /commands/rclone_rmdirs/
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groups: Important
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versionIntroduced: v1.35
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# autogenerated - DO NOT EDIT, instead edit the source code in cmd/rmdirs/ and as part of making a release run "make commanddocs"
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---
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# rclone rmdirs
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Remove empty directories under the path.
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## Synopsis
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This recursively removes any empty directories (including directories
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that only contain empty directories), that it finds under the path.
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The root path itself will also be removed if it is empty, unless
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you supply the `--leave-root` flag.
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Use command [rmdir](/commands/rclone_rmdir/) to delete just the empty
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directory given by path, not recurse.
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This is useful for tidying up remotes that rclone has left a lot of
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empty directories in. For example the [delete](/commands/rclone_delete/)
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command will delete files but leave the directory structure (unless
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used with option `--rmdirs`).
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This will delete `--checkers` directories concurrently so
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if you have thousands of empty directories consider increasing this number.
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To delete a path and any objects in it, use the [purge](/commands/rclone_purge/)
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command.
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```
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rclone rmdirs remote:path [flags]
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```
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## Options
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```
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-h, --help help for rmdirs
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--leave-root Do not remove root directory if empty
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```
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## Important Options
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Important flags useful for most commands.
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```
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-n, --dry-run Do a trial run with no permanent changes
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-i, --interactive Enable interactive mode
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-v, --verbose count Print lots more stuff (repeat for more)
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```
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See the [global flags page](/flags/) for global options not listed here.
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# SEE ALSO
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* [rclone](/commands/rclone/) - Show help for rclone commands, flags and backends.
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