Deleting content of folder with shell script

Question

Im having problems trying to empty a folder in my script.

This is working in my command line:

rm -r Folder1/Folder2/*

But if in my script I do this:

DIR="Folder1/Folder2/"
rm -r "$DIR*"

It says "rm: Folder1/Folder2/*: No such file or directory", where is the problem?

Im running the script in the same folder as I tried the command.

Mat · Accepted Answer · 2012-05-07T15:25:02.490

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Glob expansion doesn't happen inside quotes.

Try:

rm -r -- "$DIR"*

(Just make really sure you don't put a space after the quotes.)

edited May 07 '12 at 15:25

answered May 07 '12 at 14:17

Mat

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered May 07 '12 at 14:22

1

rm -r $DIR*

That should work, without quotes

answered May 07 '12 at 14:22

egoroveo

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