Re: unlink and rmdir

perldoc -f rmdir says it deletes only if the directory is empty. To delete a non-empty directory, use:

use File::Path;
rmtree($dir, 0, 1);
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See perldoc File::Path for details.

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Re: Re: unlink and rmdir by Roger (Parson) on Nov 30, 2003 at 23:03 UTC
Just another 'TAMTOWTDI'. I know this is non-portable, but on unix machines, I am most likely going to do something like this instead - `system("/bin/rm -rf $dir");` [download] or simply `/bin/rm -rf $dir`; [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]