in reply to concise perl rm -rf idiom that works?

-f is the default behaviour. You are turning it off.

Change
perl -e 'use File::Path "rmtree"; rmtree("foo", 0, 1)'
to
perl -e 'use File::Path "rmtree"; rmtree("foo", 0, 0)'
or just
perl -e 'use File::Path "rmtree"; rmtree("foo")'

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Re^2: concise perl rm -rf idiom that works?
by thepler (Novice) on Mar 21, 2007 at 23:02 UTC
    Much thanks! Not sure how I missed that.