I am trying to replace a single line of code `rm -rf $tmp/scale-*` with something that is portable across OSes. My first idea was File::Path::remove_tree($tmp,{keep_root=>1}), but I don't want to necessarily remove everything in the $tmp directory. Those scale-* directories have filled subdirectories too, hence the -f in the rm call. I'm also trying to not construct the paths directly, I've used File::Spec->catfile() in other places in this script. I'm trying to stick with core Perl modules, since I don't want users to have to install anything separately if possible. What I thought would work was some combination of File::Path::remove_tree, glob(), and File::Spec->catfile() (or similar), but I can't seem to put it all together. Most of the glob() examples I've seen have hard-coded directories. Please tell me I'm over-thinking this!

In reply to removing directories with wildcard glob in OS-portable way by Anonymous Monk

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