I want a solution that will work on all platforms. I read in Lerning Perl that unlink <*> could delete all files. But what if i want to delete all files under a certain directory?
will unlink <./mydir/*> work? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Denzil Kruse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 04, 2004 10:26 AM Subject: Re: Removing many files and subdirectories under a folrder > Not a perl master, but can't you just do a: > > system("rm -r <dirname>"); > > Is that what you mean? > > Denzil > > --- John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > can the above be done with one perl function? > > > > > _______________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today! > http://vote.yahoo.com > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response> > > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>