Hi guys,

I am fairly new with perl. Would really appreciate some help. Here is what I am trying to have the script do:

1. change directory to my desired directory: /glb/home/usjak8/myperl

2. There are 4 directories under that directory: dir1, dir2, dir3, dir4.

3. I would like to recursively delete dir1, dir2 and dir4 with all the files under them removed as well.

4. I want to leave dir3 alone.

5. Once dir1, dir2 and dir4 are deleted I want to log the message in a file saying that these are the files that are deleted.

6. File names will change every week except for dir3.

7. No need to print anything as this script will run via cron on every Monday morning at 5am. The only way administrator would know that the directories are deleted is by looking at the output file showing the deleted directories or cd'ing to the /glb/home/usjak8/myperl directory and doing an ls there.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Javed

In reply to Removing all directories recursively except one by javedakbar

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