simple way to rm -rf non empty directories

bengmau has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Is there a quick way to delete non-empty directories in perl or do I have to recursively have to delete all the files and then do a recursive unlink of directories by using file::find a couple of times? I could always shell out to do it but that defeats the purpose of platform independence.

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Re: simple way to rm -rf non empty directories by japhy (Canon) on Apr 20, 2005 at 15:48 UTC
Use the standard File::Path module, which provides the rmtree() function. _____________________________________________________ Jeff `japhy` Pinyan, P.L., P.M., P.O.D, X.S.: Perl, regex, and `perl` hacker How can we ever be the sold short or the cheated, we who for every service have long ago been overpaid? ~~ Meister Eckhart	[reply]
Re: simple way to rm -rf non empty directories by Kevad (Scribe) on Apr 20, 2005 at 15:47 UTC
Check out File::Path. This provides functionality similar to the unix "rm -r" command.	[reply]