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in thread How can I remove a Dir?

Let's try that again, now that I've actually tried reading something.. 
use File::Path;

my $dir = '/to_remove';
rmpath([$dir], 0, 0);

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File::Path comes with the standard distribution

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Re: RE: Re: How can I remove a Dir?
by Anonymous Monk on Jan 22, 2001 at 11:12 UTC
    In fact, it's rmtree() instead rmpath() (at least in perl 5) 8^)

    Jose Quesada
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      I'm still working with baby perl but this code will display all of the contents of a directory and prompt you with a yes or no to delete the entire directory and it's contents. This code works on perl 5.6.1 on a win32 system. Have fun! 
      #!/usr/bin/perl-w

use strict;
use win32;
my $dir  = "U:\\foo\\bar\\perl";

system ("dir $dir");
system ("del $dir"); 
# here the /s includes subtrees and /q supresses the prompt
# uncomment this and you won't get the prompt!
# system ("del /s /q $dir");
system ("rmdir $dir");

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