As it happens I was working on something similar to this last nite. I spent a couple of hours on it before I discovered File::Find - I really have to read more, might be able to stop duplicating effort. Anyhow, here is the code that I wrote, someone let me know what problems there are.. other than the obvious dup of effort :-). 
use strict;

unless ($ARGV[0]){
    print "Please enter a string to look for: ";
    $ARGV[0]=<STDIN>;
    chomp @ARGV;
}

my $delkey = $ARGV[0];
my $startdir="c:/blah";
my (@dirs,
    @newdirs,
    @dellist);


print "searching $startdir\n";

#build a list of files/dirs:
my @list = glob("$startdir*");

#run through the list, if a dir, goes to @dir array (with a / at the e
+nd)
foreach (@list){             
    push (@dirs => "$_/") if -d;
    if (/.*$delkey*/oi){
        push (@dellist => "$_/") if -d;
    }
}

#call the subroutine - this does the same thing on the next set of dir
+s down
build(@dirs);

#if there are further subdirs, call the sub again
while (@newdirs){
    build($newdirs[0]);
    shift(@newdirs);
}

sub build{
    my @dirs=@_;
    while (@dirs){
    my $dir = shift (@dirs);
    print "searching $dir\n";
    my @list = glob("$dir*");
    foreach (@list){
        push (@newdirs => "$_/") if -d;
        if (/.*$delkey*/oi){
                push (@dellist => "$_/") if -d;
        }
    }
    }
}

foreach (reverse @dellist){
    print "found: $_ to delete\n";
    chdir "$_" || die "Unable to change to $_ : $!";
    unlink (<*>);
    chdir "$startdir" || die "Unable to change back to $startdir : $!"
+;
    rmdir "$_" || die "Unable to rmdir on $_ : $!";
}

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In reply to Re: Recursive Directory Tree Deletion in Windows by the_slycer
in thread Recursive Directory Tree Deletion in Windows by gaggio

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