wp-admin/includes/class-wp-filesystem-base.php:687Deletes a file or directory.
$filestring$recursivebooloptionalfalse$typestring|falseoptionalfalsebool public function delete( $file, $recursive = false, $type = false ) { return false; }Introduced in 2.5.0. Unchanged from 6.7.7 through 7.1.0.
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src/wp-admin/includes/class-wp-filesystem-base.php, and regenerated for each WordPress release so it tracks the code rather than a snapshot of it.