FTP Delete non empty directory

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JonatanEkstedt picture JonatanEkstedt · May 25, 2012 · Viewed 88.5k times · Source

I am connected to a Unix server and I am trying to, via FTP, delete the directory dir with several files in it. If I use

ftp> delete dir/*

I get

550 Wildcard is ambiguous.

When I use

ftp> prompt off
Interactive mode off.
ftp> mdelete dir/*

I still get

550 Wildcard is ambiguous.

When I try

ftp> glob
Globbing on.
ftp> mdelete dir

I'm prompted for every file.

How can I easily delete/empty-and-delete a directory without getting prompted for every file?

Answer

EcchiOli picture EcchiOli · Jun 10, 2013

I got it to work in two steps, on a server with restricted access, no SFTP, only FTP through commandline.

Like this :

mdelete folder_name/*
rmdir folder_name

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