I understand the permissions issue and did some investigating through the command line. 
Z:\HF ACCESS\IT\dev>perl testdel.pl
\\fileprint-01\Company\HFACCE~1\IT\dev\test\test.txt
couldn't delete \\fileprint-01\Company\HFACCE~1\IT\dev\test\test.txt: 
+Permission denied at testdel.pl line 12.

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this is telling me permission problem. And when I dir that folder using the full path and try to del it gives me this 
Z:\HF ACCESS\IT\dev>dir  \\fileprint-01\Company\HFACCE~1\IT\dev\test\t
+est.txt
 Volume in drive \\fileprint-01\Company is Data
 Volume Serial Number is C8C5-EF0A

 Directory of \\fileprint-01\Company\HFACCE~1\IT\dev\test

05/22/2009  10:21 AM                 0 test.txt
               1 File(s)              0 bytes
               0 Dir(s)  196,346,269,696 bytes free

Z:\HF ACCESS\IT\dev>del  \\fileprint-01\Company\HFACCE~1\IT\dev\test\t
+est.txt
\\fileprint-01\Company\HFACCE~1\IT\dev\test\test.txt
Access is denied.

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This is where it gets tricky when I change the path to the long name and put quotes around the path it allows me to delete the file 
Z:\HF ACCESS\IT\dev>del "\\fileprint-01\data\company\hf access\it\dev\
+test\test.txt"

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I verified this with another file test.tst.txt after 
Z:\HF ACCESS\IT\dev>dir  \\fileprint-01\Company\HFACCE~1\IT\dev\test\t
+est.tst.txt
 Volume in drive \\fileprint-01\Company is Data
 Volume Serial Number is C8C5-EF0A

 Directory of \\fileprint-01\Company\HFACCE~1\IT\dev\test

05/22/2009  11:27 AM                 0 test.tst.txt
               1 File(s)              0 bytes
               0 Dir(s)  194,855,174,144 bytes free

Z:\HF ACCESS\IT\dev>del   \\fileprint-01\Company\HFACCE~1\IT\dev\test\
+test.tst.txt
\\fileprint-01\Company\HFACCE~1\IT\dev\test\test.tst.txt
Access is denied.

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Now when I tried putting this into play with perl and unlink this is what I recieved. 
Z:\HF ACCESS\IT\dev>perl testdel.pl
"\\fileprint-01\Company\HF ACCESS\IT\dev\test\test.tst.txt"
couldn't delete "\\fileprint-01\Company\HF ACCESS\IT\dev\test\test.tst
+.txt": No such file or directory at testdel.pl line 12.

Z:\HF ACCESS\IT\dev>dir "\\fileprint-01\Company\HF ACCESS\IT\dev\test\
+test.tst.txt"
 Volume in drive \\fileprint-01\Company is Data
 Volume Serial Number is C8C5-EF0A

 Directory of \\fileprint-01\Company\HF ACCESS\IT\dev\test

05/22/2009  11:27 AM                 0 test.tst.txt
               1 File(s)              0 bytes
               0 Dir(s)  194,891,591,680 bytes free

Z:\HF ACCESS\IT\dev>perl testdel.pl
\\fileprint-01\Company\HF ACCESS\IT\dev\test\test.tst.txt
couldn't delete \\fileprint-01\Company\HF ACCESS\IT\dev\test\test.tst.
+txt: Permission denied at testdel.pl line 12.

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In the script I inserted quotes around the file name for the first run and removed them for the second because that is what did it for del in the command prompt. What am i missing about unlink, why when I use quotes it tells me that it does not exist and when I don't it tells me permission denied.

In reply to Re: unlink a server file by jonschin
in thread unlink a server file by jonschin

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