wp-admin/includes/class-wp-filesystem-ssh2.php:544Deletes a file or directory.
$filestring$recursivebooloptionalfalse$typestring|falseoptionalfalsebool public function delete( $file, $recursive = false, $type = false ) { if ( 'f' === $type || $this->is_file( $file ) ) { return ssh2_sftp_unlink( $this->sftp_link, $file ); } if ( ! $recursive ) { return ssh2_sftp_rmdir( $this->sftp_link, $file ); } $filelist = $this->dirlist( $file ); if ( is_array( $filelist ) ) { foreach ( $filelist as $filename => $fileinfo ) { $this->delete( $file . '/' . $filename, $recursive, $fileinfo['type'] ); } } return ssh2_sftp_rmdir( $this->sftp_link, $file ); }Introduced in 2.7.0. Unchanged from 6.7.7 through 7.1.0.
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