utils: Improve remove funciton to handle whitespace

Improve the remove function to better handle cases where path contains
special shell chars like whitespaces, '$', ';' or'\'.

Thanks to Enrico Scholz for the fix.

Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/lib/bb/utils.py b/lib/bb/utils.py
index 8c363dfe2..b2f81c8a9 100644
--- a/lib/bb/utils.py
+++ b/lib/bb/utils.py
@@ -536,9 +536,9 @@ def remove(path, recurse=False):
     if not path:
         return
     if recurse:
-        import subprocess
+        import subprocess, glob
         # shutil.rmtree(name) would be ideal but its too slow
-        subprocess.call("rm -rf %s" % path, shell=True)
+        subprocess.call(['rm', '-rf'] + glob.glob(path))
         return
     import os, errno, glob
     for name in glob.glob(path):