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... chomp $dirname - why? To get rid of that pesky newline. (Yes, there is one.) ... define the scalar $dirname - why? That he may print it (in the last line)? ... use a system call to rm, making it platform dependant. Why not use unlink? Opening "ls *~|" already makes it platform dependent. Of course, that could be glob("*~"), so your question still stands ... ... empty the entire directory from which this is run - why not use rm * | del *.* | whatever? I think you miss the point: the alternative would be rm *~, which is quite easy to get wrong. Or at least easy enough to make guys like me paranoid. Me, I have a bash function for this sort of thing:
If it ever gets complicated enough that I make a Perl script out of it, I'll probably make it platform independant. For now, it does the job. The Sidhekin In reply to Re: Re: remove backups
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