diff --git a/src/bin/generate-i18n-messages.ts b/src/bin/generate-i18n-messages.ts
index 431efe7d..8ceabbf6 100644
--- a/src/bin/generate-i18n-messages.ts
+++ b/src/bin/generate-i18n-messages.ts
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import { join as pathJoin, relative as pathRelative, dirname as pathDirname } fr
 import { crawl } from "./tools/crawl";
 import { downloadBuiltinKeycloakTheme } from "./download-builtin-keycloak-theme";
 import { getProjectRoot } from "./tools/getProjectRoot";
-import { rm_rf, rm_r } from "./tools/rm";
+import { rmSync } from "fs";
 
 //NOTE: To run without argument when we want to generate src/i18n/generated_kcMessages files,
 // update the version array for generating for newer version.
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ for (const keycloakVersion of ["11.0.3", "15.0.2", "18.0.1"]) {
 
     const tmpDirPath = pathJoin(getProjectRoot(), "tmp_xImOef9dOd44");
 
-    rm_rf(tmpDirPath);
+    rmSync(tmpDirPath, {recursive: true, force: true});
 
     downloadBuiltinKeycloakTheme({
         keycloakVersion,
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ for (const keycloakVersion of ["11.0.3", "15.0.2", "18.0.1"]) {
         });
     }
 
-    rm_r(tmpDirPath);
+    rmSync(tmpDirPath, {recursive: true, force: true});
 
     Object.keys(record).forEach(pageType => {
         const recordForPageType = record[pageType];
diff --git a/src/bin/link_in_test_app.ts b/src/bin/link_in_test_app.ts
index b482c1f1..4d4703bd 100644
--- a/src/bin/link_in_test_app.ts
+++ b/src/bin/link_in_test_app.ts
@@ -43,7 +43,8 @@ const commonThirdPartyDeps = (() => {
 
 const yarnHomeDirPath = pathJoin(keycloakifyDirPath, ".yarn_home");
 
-execSync(["rm -rf", "mkdir"].map(cmd => `${cmd} ${yarnHomeDirPath}`).join(" && "));
+fs.rmSync(yarnHomeDirPath, {recursive: true, force: true});
+fs.mkdirSync(yarnHomeDirPath);
 
 const execYarnLink = (params: { targetModuleName?: string; cwd: string }) => {
     const { targetModuleName, cwd } = params;
diff --git a/src/bin/tools/downloadAndUnzip.ts b/src/bin/tools/downloadAndUnzip.ts
index 1522e327..d3aa0e67 100644
--- a/src/bin/tools/downloadAndUnzip.ts
+++ b/src/bin/tools/downloadAndUnzip.ts
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ import { basename as pathBasename, join as pathJoin } from "path";
 import { execSync } from "child_process";
 import * as fs from "fs";
 import { transformCodebase } from "./transformCodebase";
-import { rm, rm_rf } from "./rm";
 import * as crypto from "crypto";
 
 /** assert url ends with .zip */
@@ -48,7 +47,7 @@ export function downloadAndUnzip(params: { url: string; destDirPath: string; pat
             [extractDirPath]: false
         });
 
-        rm_rf(extractDirPath);
+        fs.rmSync(extractDirPath, {recursive: true, force: true});
 
         fs.mkdirSync(extractDirPath);
 
@@ -60,7 +59,7 @@ export function downloadAndUnzip(params: { url: string; destDirPath: string; pat
             "cwd": extractDirPath
         });
 
-        rm(zipFileBasename, { "cwd": extractDirPath });
+        fs.rmSync(pathJoin(extractDirPath, zipFileBasename), {recursive: true, force: true});
 
         writeIsSuccessByExtractDirPath({
             ...isSuccessByExtractDirPath,
diff --git a/src/bin/tools/rm.ts b/src/bin/tools/rm.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index d429e391..00000000
--- a/src/bin/tools/rm.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,31 +0,0 @@
-import { execSync } from "child_process";
-
-function rmInternal(params: { pathToRemove: string; args: string | undefined; cwd: string | undefined }) {
-    const { pathToRemove, args, cwd } = params;
-
-    execSync(`rm ${args ? `-${args} ` : ""}${pathToRemove.replace(/ /g, "\\ ")}`, cwd !== undefined ? { cwd } : undefined);
-}
-
-export function rm(pathToRemove: string, options?: { cwd: string }) {
-    rmInternal({
-        pathToRemove,
-        "args": undefined,
-        "cwd": options?.cwd
-    });
-}
-
-export function rm_r(pathToRemove: string, options?: { cwd: string }) {
-    rmInternal({
-        pathToRemove,
-        "args": "r",
-        "cwd": options?.cwd
-    });
-}
-
-export function rm_rf(pathToRemove: string, options?: { cwd: string }) {
-    rmInternal({
-        pathToRemove,
-        "args": "rf",
-        "cwd": options?.cwd
-    });
-}