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RmDir in File System of MS-DOS Commands
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Rmdir command in MS-DOS 
rmdir is remove directory command. It is used to remove directory's.

If there is no file in directory, then use
      rmdir dir_name

To remove multiple empty directories
      rmdir dir_name1 dir_name2....

To remove non empty directories
      rmdir /s dir_name1 dir_name2....
      - It is asking the confirmation to delete given directory.

Demo 
d:\tmp>mkdir images songs videos

d:\tmp>dir
 Volume in drive D has no label.
 Volume Serial Number is 8460-8FB0

 Directory of d:\tmp

05/04/2014  10:53 PM    <DIR>          .
05/04/2014  10:53 PM    <DIR>          ..
05/04/2014  10:53 PM    <DIR>          images
05/04/2014  10:53 PM    <DIR>          songs
05/04/2014  10:53 PM    <DIR>          videos
               0 File(s)              0 bytes
               5 Dir(s)  13,269,868,544 bytes free

d:\tmp>rmdir images

d:\tmp>dir
 Volume in drive D has no label.
 Volume Serial Number is 8460-8FB0

 Directory of d:\tmp

05/04/2014  10:53 PM    <DIR>          .
05/04/2014  10:53 PM    <DIR>          ..
05/04/2014  10:53 PM    <DIR>          songs
05/04/2014  10:53 PM    <DIR>          videos
               0 File(s)              0 bytes
               4 Dir(s)  13,269,868,544 bytes free

d:\tmp>rmdir images
The system cannot find the file specified.

d:\tmp>rmdir songs videos

d:\tmp>dir
 Volume in drive D has no label.
 Volume Serial Number is 8460-8FB0

 Directory of d:\tmp

05/04/2014  10:54 PM    <DIR>          .
05/04/2014  10:54 PM    <DIR>          ..
               0 File(s)              0 bytes
               2 Dir(s)  13,269,868,544 bytes free

d:\tmp>
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