wp-admin/includes/class-wp-filesystem-ftpext.php:448Deletes a file or directory.
$filestring$recursivebooloptionalfalse$typestring|falseoptionalfalsebool public function delete( $file, $recursive = false, $type = false ) { if ( empty( $file ) ) { return false; } if ( 'f' === $type || $this->is_file( $file ) ) { return ftp_delete( $this->link, $file ); } if ( ! $recursive ) { return ftp_rmdir( $this->link, $file ); } $filelist = $this->dirlist( trailingslashit( $file ) ); if ( ! empty( $filelist ) ) { foreach ( $filelist as $delete_file ) { $this->delete( trailingslashit( $file ) . $delete_file['name'], $recursive, $delete_file['type'] ); } } return ftp_rmdir( $this->link, $file ); }Introduced in 2.5.0. Unchanged from 6.7.7 through 7.1.0.
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