This is part of the Semicolon&Sons Code Diary - consisting of lessons learned on the job. You're in the unix category.
Last Updated: 2025-10-31
Using a lab's SFTP connection, I tried to delete ./out/test using
methods like rm. This failed and returned false without any debugging info.
I assumed this was a permissions thing.
In actuality, the issue was silly and blameable on a terrible UI: out/test
was a folder, not a file. The UI didn't distinguish
Thus rmdir worked.