Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] End of an Era: shell access.

[Matthew Ward <matt.ward@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

this should remove the old content:

r$ rm -rf /home/data/httpd/download.eclipse.org/egit/github/updates/*

The issue is that the restricted shell doesn't do any pattern expansion/globbing of things like *  or ? on the commands it supports.  I'll talk to the other members of the Webmaster team about our options(if any) for this kind of expansion.

In the meantime you absolutely can use rm, you'll just need to be a little more specific: 

r$ rm -rf /home/data/httpd/download.eclipse.org/egit/github/updates/updates-5.4

-Matt.