Hi,

My example absolutely should be a one-liner - if invoked from the shell. What I wanted to do, however, was achieve the same thing from inside a lengthy perl script (that does lots of other things) without (a) having to code the whole thing with proper error-checking etc and without (b) forking another perl just to save typing.

Ikegami's answer is closest to the spirit of my request but the answers that suggest using Path::Tiny are probably easier to read, which is a "good thing"™.

Thanks for your interest.

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