in reply to How to delete UNC directory on Windows

I have found ways to do this using system commands, but I would prefer to do this within Perl

Why? Do you have lots of UNC paths to remove? This: 

perl -MTime::HiRes=time 
-wle"print time; system q[rd /s /q \\.\test\delete_this]; print time;
1201559494.81249
1201559494.82497

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Takes all of 12 milliseconds to execute and consumes a whole extra 2k* of ram for that brief period.

*Assuming you started the script from a command line.

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