Hi Maxim,
> no :) you forgot to escape backslash. but there is no difference
> between \ and / slashes in path names in perl for windows.
>
Thanks for this. I use perl on a Linux box, and there I use a /.
> second, unlink <$_path/*> does not works.
>
No. here's a small perl prog I wrote to test this:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
$_dir = "/tmp/dummy/";
unlink <$_dir/*> if -r $_dir;
exit;
This prog worked on v5.6.1 built for i386-linux.
Best,
-tir
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> Hello Tirthankar,
>
> Tuesday, December 04, 2001, Tirthankar C. Patnaik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> TCP> You might want to check the permissions of those files.
>
> TCP> The command works fine here.
> TCP> But I guess the mistake is that you're working on Windows, and there you have
> TCP> a back-slash ( \ ) instead of a slash ( / ).
> TCP> Try this:
>
> TCP> my ($_path) = "c:\EventLogs";
> TCP> unlink <$_path/*> if -r $_path;
>
> TCP> This should work.
> no :) you forgot to escape backslash. but there is no difference
> between \ and / slashes in path names in perl for windows.
> second, unlink <$_path/*> does not works.
> can be
> my $_path = "c:/EventLogs";
> if( -d $_path )
> {
> chdir $_path;
> unlink <*> or die $!;
> }
>
> Best wishes,
> Maxim mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
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