Re^2: File::Path::rmtree on UNC path (updated)

You are right. I can't chdir in a directory and then delete it. Which leaves me with the original problem: If I do NOT chdir into it, I get consistently the error message ... changed before chdir, expected ..., and nothing gets deleted. If I chdir into it, its content will be deleted, but the directory itself won't.

Of course I can do the following strategy:

chdir $sharedir;
rmtree $sharedir,1,1;
chdir 'c:/';
rmdir $sharedir;

This would indeed remove the directory completely, but I get the nasty error message from rmtree in step (2), so this is not a solution I really like.

Maybe I have to really write my own "rmtree", or - as this is going to run on Windows only - I shell out and do a system('RMDIR'...).

--
Ronald Fischer <ynnor@mm.st>

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Re^3: File::Path::rmtree on UNC path (updated) by swhl (Initiate) on Jun 10, 2009 at 10:01 UTC
what if you chdir to the directory above that? `my ($dir, $subdir) = $sharedir =~ /^(.)\/(.)$/; chdir $dir; rmtree $subdir;` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: File::Path::rmtree on UNC path (updated) by rovf (Priest) on Jun 10, 2009 at 11:40 UTC
`my ($dir, $subdir) = $sharedir =~ /^(.)\/(.)$/; chdir $dir;` [download] Actually, I would write this as `$chdir "$subdir\\..";` [download] (should be no peril in this context, isn't it?), but, yes, you are right, this seems to work well!! Great idea! -- Ronald Fischer <ynnor@mm.st>	[reply] [d/l] [select]