Github user joewitt commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/nifi/pull/1561
The more I look at this processor the more I think the mistake was in
allowing it to have wildcards and to run without incoming flow files. Had it
been restricted to simply deleting the content of a path specified by a given
flowfile it would be much more clear.
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