Mike's Question:
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)
-------------------------------------------------------From
Lamer:
Simply Speaking, This would have been done better with
these shell commands:
# cd /directory
# rm -rf *
# cd ..;
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>From Joost:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use File::Path;
rmtree("some/dir", 0, 1);
=pod
man File::Path
=cut
-------------------------------------------------------From
Craig:
to remove a dirtory that had files in it:
- rm -rf directory
to delete all files in one directory
(leaving the directory intact)
- rm -rf directory/*
to delete everything in a directory, including
subdirectories
- find . -type f | xargs rm -f
to delete all files in a directory or its
subdirectories,
but keep the directory structure intact.
Perl isn't required.
-------------------------------------------------------From
Bud:
>Even better.... what would be a nice command to
delete all filesin one directory... (leaving the
directory intact)
#! /usr/bin/perl -w
$dir = "/path/to/dir";
opendir(DIR, $dir) or die "can't opendir $dir: $!";
while ( defined ($file = readdir DIR) ) {
next if $file =~ /^\.\.?$/; # skip . and ..
unlink $file;
}
Quick and dirty, but I think it will delete all files
in one directory. Won't handle subdirs. Then you
could probably just
close(DIR);
rmdir $dir;
to get rid of the directory.
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>From Larry Wall:
"There's more than one way to do things"
A fine example of life imitating art ;-)
Scott Hamma
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