If a file you have permissions for will not delete assume it is a folder

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Last Updated: 2024-03-28

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.