# Looking for entries in \\myhost.mycompany.com\results$\ matching a certain glob pattern my @sharedirs=glob("//myhost.mycompany.com/results\$/ART/$username*$uidstr"); if(@sharedirs==0) { print "No result share found\n"; } elsif(@sharedirs > 1) { print("No unique result share found\n", } else { my $sharedir=$sharedirs[0]; print "Removing $sharedir\n"; print "Removing of $sharedir was not successful\n" if rmtree($sharedir,1,1)==0; }