Re: deleting content of /tmp

["Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto" <please.no.spam.here@gmail.com>]

   If path specifies a directory, remove(path) is the equivalent of
    rmdir(path).  Otherwise, it is the equivalent of unlink(path).

I believe using unlink is less portable. 

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