On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 11:49:20PM -0400, perlwannabe wrote:
> I have made the script as simple as possible and cannot get
> unlink to work.
>
> unlink ("c:\testdir\*030977*.*") || die "unlink failed: $!";
You'd need to expand the wildcards yourself:
my $pat = 'c:\testdir\*030977*.*';
foreach (glob($pat)) {
unlink or warn "Couldn't unlink '$_': $!";
}
And be careful with double-quotes and backslashes.
> I have even simplified further using a file "test.txt" and
> using unlink ("test.txt"); this also failed.
What was the error this time?
(Maybe you're in the wrong directory.)
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