I'm afraid to say that I don't know of any ftp server programs that allow a cascading delete. You'll have to go through each folder, do a listing, delete all files, and repeat process for each folder, deleting the parent folder after all children are gone. I think if you do a Super Search you will find some examples of the code you'll need.
    Update: or, as ctilmes mentions, you could allow Net::FTP::Recursive to do the dirty work for you! :^)

If you have access to the server via a shell, you can issue an 'rm -rf' command if it's unix/linux or 'rmdir /S /Q' if it's windows. You could have the ftp script execute this via a SSH or Telnet connection to keep it all in the same script.

Update: Since you state in your previous question that you normally telnet into the server, you can use Net::Telnet.

In reply to Re: Force a Delete by arden
in thread Force a Delete by new_monk

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