My path is still having problems. I am trying to delete archive log, when I do this - system ('rmdir /S /Q "D:\log_script\Archive\2017-10-14.zip"'); directory is invalid do this - system ('rmdir /S /Q "D:/log_script/Archive/2017-10-14.zip"'); system cannot find the path do this - 
                                                  
 my $DIR = "D:/log_script/Archive";
my @files = glob("$DIR/*.zip");
for my $file (@files) 
{
    next unless -f $file;
    my $age = -M $file;
    if ($age > 1 ) 
    {
        print "$file \n";
        system ( 'rmdir', '/S', '/Q', "$file");
      
    }
}

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invalid switch - "log_script" anyone have idea?

In reply to Re: delete folder and its content with plain perl by ytjPerl
in thread delete folder and its content with plain perl by ytjPerl

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