Re: How do I delete a file from Perl?

[Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan]

On Jan 12, Randolph S. Kahle said:

>The only line that is not working is
>
>system( rm -rf $file );

You (or they) have forgotten the quotes:

  system("rm -rf $file");

But if you copied this from another source, that source was totally
unaware that deletion of files like THAT is TOTALLY unsafe.  A safer
approach is:

  system("rm", "-rf", $file);

But an even better approach is to not use system() at all -- Perl can
delete files natively, with the unlink() function:

  unlink $file;

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