Danger, Will Robinson, Danger! I really hope there are no directory names in that list of yours. Unlinking directories is usually a very bad idea - problems that even fsck has a hard time fixing can result.

Having said that and realizing the caffiene/sleep ratio is far too high, lets have some fun. Can we do this in one line? Why, yes! 

@dead = grep { ! defined( $keep{$_} ) &&
        ( -d $file ? rmdir : unlink ) && $_ } @files;

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which will not call unlink on directories and return a list of the files deleted. It does assume that you have done a depth-first walk to generate the file names though. Now, this is useful, but I could generate the "expected to be blown away" list easier. What I would be interested in is the files that didn't get blown away. 
@dead = grep { ! defined( $keep{$_} ) &&
        ( ( -d $file ? rmdir : unlink ) || $_ ) } @files;

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Well this is cute, but why couldn't we blow the file away? 
@dead = grep { ! defined( $keep{$_} ) &&
        ( ( -d $file ? rmdir : unlink ) || "$_:$!" ) } @files;

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On second thought, follow lhoward's suggestion - this code is dangerous and will likely get you cursed by anybody having to maintain it.

Mik Firestone ( perlus bigotus maximus )

In reply to RE: Re: Hard disc pruner by mikfire
in thread Hard disc pruner by dmtelf

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