I'm a bit of a Perl newbie (7 days and counting) and I need help! I'm trying to write some code that will delete all files in a specified directory on an NT4 server. 
    opendir(DIR, "$basedir/$mesgdir");            
    @allfiles = readdir(DIR);            
    @onlyfiles = grep {!/^\./} @allfiles;        

    foreach $file (@onlyfiles)                
    {
    unlink ($file);
    }
    closedir(DIR);

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As far as I can tell the above code should work. I know that opendir uses the correct directory, I know that a list of files is created (@allfiles) and that @onlyfile is a list of files minus the dot files. The only bit that doesn't work is the unlink part. Can anyone tell me why? Thanks

In reply to Deleting specified files and directories by Sadmachine

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