Hi all, still struggling with this. I want to run command rm -rf /path/to/dir/*, so that I delete the content but not the dir itself. I get this julia> Base.run(`rm -rf $(ReproData.root())/code/"*"`) Process(`rm -rf '/Users/floswald/git/ReproWorkshop/code/*'`, ProcessExited(0)) but that does not …

Removing directory contents recursively

floswald May 6, 2025, 3:05pm 3

oh right! sorry I didn’t get the bash call there in front. thanks a lot!

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