Thanks,
Thats the point, I wanted to confirm.
Sara.
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From: "Wiggins d Anconia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Sara" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "beginners-cgi"
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Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 2:03 AM
Subject: Re: unlink help.
>
>
> >
> > unlink <*.bak>;
> >
> > how I am supposed to specify directory above?
> >
> > for example I have to apply above unlink command to delete all backup
> files in the Specified directory.
> >
> > $dir = /home/path/to/dir
> >
> > is it right?
> >
> > unlink <$dir/*.bak>;
> >
> > ??
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
>
> The <> operator has two purposes one as a IO handle readline function
> the other as a file globber. You are using it in the second case. You
> can read more in:
>
> perldoc perlop
>
> Specifically in the section on the <> operator and file globbing, which
> is part of the "I/O Operators" subsection.
>
> Essentially it recommends you use an explicit 'glob' in this case, so
> something like:
>
> unlink glob("$dir/*.bak");
>
> Should do the trick. Don't forget to check for success, yada yada yada...
>
> perldoc -f glob
>
> http://danconia.org
>
>
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