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sudo rm /heart/arteries/**/clot

Please forgive my ignorance. What does ** do?

Had to look this up as well. Its not rm specific:

* is a simple, non-recursive wildcard representing zero or more characters which you can use for paths and file names. ** is a recursive wildcard that can only be used with paths, not file names.

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