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Re: perl question



Simply Speaking, This would have been done better with these
shell commands:

# cd /directory
# rm -rf *
# cd ..;

:)

rgrds,
Calvin "Lamer"

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>From: "Mike Egglestone"<megglestone@heritage.sd57.bc.ca>
>To: "debian-user"<debian-user@lists.debian.org>
>Subject: perl question
>Date: Thu, Jul 18, 2002, 4:53 AM
>

> Hello...
>
> Here's one for some of the perl guys....
>
> I want to delete a directory that will have files in it...
> I don't know the name of the files.... there for wildcards might
> be needed....
>
> I understand that "rmdir" will wipe out an empty directory....
> and "unlink" will wipe out files (only if I know the names of the files)
>
> What would be a nice command to remove a dirtory that had files in it?
> Even better.... what would be a nice command to delete all files
> in one directory... (leaving the directory intact)
>
> Thanks
> Mike
>
>
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