Hello Again Monks,

As stated earlier I really appreciate the advice give so far. Now for the followup question. I am using this script to clean out directories.

For this example I have 4 files in the /User/jsmith/data directory named test1-4. I want to delete all four of them so far I have the following:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

use File::Glob qw(bsd_glob);
use File::Path;

my $fname = "empty";

my @found_files;
my @found_files1;

while (! @found_files) {
        print "Please enter the file name: ";
        chomp($fname = <STDIN>);

        @found_files = glob( "/Users/jsmith/data/$fname*" );
        if (@found_files != 1) {
                print "File does not exist!";
                                };
                };
print "The following files have been deleted: \n";
print "$_\n" for @found_files;
while (@found_files != 0) {
        rmtree (@found_files);
        @found_files = glob( "/Users/jsmith/data/$fname*");
};

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Now my questions is: Is there a more effective way to use the rmtree to delete multiple directories other than using a while loop, like I did in my above code?

In reply to Re: How to compare User Input to a file Name by rqatar2003
in thread How to compare User Input to a file Name by rqatar2003

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