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Thanks for your solution.

Apologies if I didn't make my question clear. I was asking if there was any easy way of getting behaviour similar to a hypothetical "empty" command -- "$ empty dir" --...

Except that won't remove any subdirectories. Removing the "-type f" and specifying "rm -r" fixes this issue... but you'll still hit an error when find attempts to remove the "." directory....

It's not homework. I'm looking to know mostly out of curiosity, but you could argue that using wildcards is bad anyway. If there's a million files in the directory, that's a million rm processes...

What's the best way to delete everything in a directory, but not the directory itself, without using shell wildcards?