FTP Delete non empty directory

If you've hidden files or folders on your server (for example .folder), you have to set the lftp list-options to "-a".

So this worked for me:

$ lftp -u user,pass server
> set ftp:list-options -a
> cd /folder/to/be/empty/
/folder/to/be/empty/> glob -a rm -r *

I got it to work in two steps, on a server with restricted access, no SFTP, only FTP through commandline.

Like this :

mdelete folder_name/*
rmdir folder_name

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