in reply to delete 'self' after running

For item 2, you might fork a new process and delete the script like below 
....
do something
....
if (my $pid = fork()){
exit;
}
else {
sleep 20;
unlink file;
exit;
}

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Re^2: delete 'self' after running
by Errto (Vicar) on Jun 14, 2007 at 14:17 UTC
    I haven't tested it but I am guessing this will not work on Win32. The reason is that fork on Win32 is emulated, meaning as far as the OS is concerned the original script is still running and cannot be unlinked.
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