Hi there! I have a little problem.
First of all i made a script to create a long path on windows: 
my $count = 0;
for ($count = 0;$count < 100; $count++) {
   mkdir "folder_" . $count;
   chdir "folder_" . $count;
}

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as you can see, it produced 100 nested folders.
Ok. Now i need to remove it (Windows cannot handle this also with setting path in form "\\.\C:\....").
I have made a new script to do the job: 
sub recursive_remove {
    my($dir) = @_;
    opendir(DIR, $dir) || die "Error: $dir $!\n";
    foreach my $file (readdir(DIR)) {
        next if $file =~ /^\.{1,2}/;
        rmdir($dir) || recursive_remove($dir . "/" . $file); 
    }
}
recursive_remove('C:/temp/' . $ARGV[0]);

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this on dies on folder_20 with "No such file or directory" Any suggestions how to do it?

In reply to Removing long pathes on windows xp by dmitryrusak

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