So write the code like:

unlink $file or die $!;

This will throw up an error message and die.



On Nov 19, 2009, David Christensen <[email protected]> wrote: 

beginners:

Is unlink() supposed to provide an error message on failure?  The
documentation does not say so:

    http://www.perl.com/doc/manual/html/pod/perlfunc/unlink.html


Testing indicate that unlink() sets $! on failure:

    

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