I too am new to Perl and could use some assistance. I have to telnet into a server and delete the following directory structure(e*Gate Intelligent Qs) under iq...


$usrid:/ep005/egate/client/iq>ls
{2CE791F8-B956-11D7-8A47-D2047591D9E7} {E966E092-0086-11D7-AE05-ABCC42
+0F384C} 
{2D3A2FE4-B956-11D7-AA01-9928386F0C64} {E9684022-0086-11D7-AE05-B56CD2
+0DA8C8} 
{2EB061E0-B956-11D7-8FAD-A2B3FC810BD6} {E9699C1A-0086-11D7-AE05-DE7A18
+3014AC} 
{E9404D1A-0086-11D7-AE05-C74CFA34F9DD} {E96B2BC0-0086-11D7-AE05-B76DF2
+2F3513}

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I have not been successful in accomplishing this. In my script, once I am in the iq directory I tried

$ftp->rmdir("/ep005/egate/client/iq/$folders"); 
$ftp->delete("/ep005/egate/client/iq/{*}"); 
system("rm -r {*}"); 
system("rm -r *");

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I pull in a list of the items into an array, sort the list then I tried running any of the statements above and neither seem to work. When I telnet manually into the server I can run this command to delete the structures

rm -r {*}

What command would delete each one or all of them under the iq directory?

Edited by Chady -- added code tags.

In reply to Need help deleting IQ Folders by new_monk

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