Question on safeness, security issues of the following commands from some code Im writing. Lots of code missing. Just the idea.

#!/usr/bin/perl -Tw

$ENV{PATH} = "/bin:/usr/bin";

my $tmp_dir = "/tmp/blahblah-11-14-2000";

if (-e "$tmp_dir") {
    system("rm","-f","$tmp_dir","*") == 0 or
        warn "Temporary folder already existed, and unable to",
              "erase files within: $!\n";
}else{
    mkdir ("$tmp_dir") or 
        die "Unable to make temporary folder $tmp_dir: $!\n";
}

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Thanks!
zzspectrez

In reply to Is this system call hazardous for my computers health?? by zzspectrez

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