Morgan Read scripsit:

> rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty
> 
> Never works.

[example snipped]

On the contrary, it did exactly what you asked.  It tried to remove
a non-empty directory, failed (as it will on all Posix and Win32
systems), and suppressed the report of the failure.

If you want to remove the directory with its contents, you need
not rmdir but rm -rf.

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