Example--Clearing Out Temporary Directories

The following example shows how to clear out the /var/tmp directory, and verifies that all files and subdirectories were removed.

# cd /var/tmp
# ls
deadfiles           wxconAAAa0003r:0.0  wxconAAAa000NA:0.0
test_dir            wxconAAAa0003u:0.0  wxconAAAa000cc:0.0 
wxconAAAa000zs:0.0
# rm -r *
# ls
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