08-11-2015
Perhaps I'm missing something here but you don't say under what account you are running this. Only 'root' will circumvent security so any other account may not have the rights to remove all files within that directory meaning that the directory is never emptied. Also, consider other hidden files (eg, .profile) to which you might not have access.
When it says "directory not empty" it generally means just that.
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Also, your script cannot be sat in a directory it is trying to remove. Check that.
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