Re: not wanting to delete somebody's home directory

[mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com>]

On 2019-07-05 16:29, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 05, 2019 at 04:24:42PM +0100, mick crane wrote:
> > I doing some code in perl and I'm not very good at it.
> > code makes some images and saves them to a directory.
> > If the directory doesn't exist it gets made and if it does exist all 
> > the
> > files in it get deleted before putting some new ones in.
>
> Have you considered simply *not* deleting all the existing files?  Just
> leaving them alone?

after they get made I rename them all in consecutive order and if 
there's other files in there the number order will get messed up.
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