Hello all, I have written a script to use NT Rmdir to purge any folders in a directory that is more than 14 days. When I try to run the script, I get an error "Cannot find path specified", this occurs at this line of code, print "system command: @args \n";

Is the script looking for the "rmdir"? I can do the same thing if I run it from the command prompt without any errors, but the only difference is, I can't check the age of the folder and act upon the results.

The syntax for "RMDIR" on a NT box is, RMDIR [/S] [/Q] [drive:]path

for example: C:\RMDIR /s C:\Archive\Test1 <--This works if you are executing this from the command prompt on NT.

The script does compare the date of the folders, but will not delete what it finds if the error condition is true, meaning any folders over 14 days. The folders it find will also have subfolders and files in them, that's why I used the /S switch.

I cannot get it to work, do you suggest using anything else beside "RMDIR", or do I need to set the environment varible so perl knows how to call the "RMDIR" from the scipt? Please help!!! 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

die "Wrong Number of Arguments" unless $#ARGV == 1;

$sourceDir = $ARGV[0];
$days      = $ARGV[1];

#foreach $arg (@ARGV) {
#        print "one arg is $arg\n";
#}


opendir source_DIR, $sourceDir or die "ERROR opening: $sourceDir, $!";

@sourceFiles = readdir source_DIR;

closedir source_DIR;

foreach $file ( @sourceFiles )
{
#  print( "sourceFiles $file \n" );
#  next if -d $sourceDir . "\\" . $file
  if ($file eq '.') {
          # do nothing
          # print "working dir \n";
  } else {
     if ($file eq '..') {
          # do nothing
          # print "parent dir \n";
     } else {
         remove_dir( $sourceDir . "\\" . $file ) if -M $sourceDir . "\
+\" . $file >= $days;
     }
  }
}

# del_file
# arg_0 = filename, including full path, to be deleted

sub remove_dir
{
  my $file = shift(@_);

  @args = ( 'rmdir /s /q'
          , $file
          )
  ;
  print "system command: @args \n";
  system( @args ) == 0  or die "error removing $file!";

} # End move_file

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