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in thread A bug in PERL or a bug in the server?

Ahh, yes, that would make more sense -- the chmod command wouldn't be creating directories, would it?

Anyway, to help you clean up what you've created, try to capture the directory name with a glob from the shell, like ls *dirname* to see if it will list it, then rm -ri *dirname* to delete it (substituting whatever glob you use to find the directory, naturally).

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Re: Re: Re: A bug in PERL or a bug in the server?
by rdw (Curate) on Nov 20, 2000 at 20:06 UTC

    Actually, I tried and failed to get my shell to let me delete a directory with a "\n" in it....

    ...but of course, since perl created the directory, it can remove it as well.

    DaWolf - it's probably easiest to just change the script to use rmdir to undo the 'damage' before you fix the chomp bug

    Have fun,

    rdw

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