Re^2: Simple Path Cleanup

It sounds to me (I could be misunderstanding, though) like the OP wants to avoid removing some major directory. So lets say the input path is something like

    /home/whoever/tmp/foo/mydir
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where mydir is a symlink to /usr/local or some such, then Path::Class's cleanup would leave it as is, and /usr/local would get removed, even though the OP checks $path !~ m#^/usr/local# (presuming appropriate permissions, of course). AFAIK, Path::Class doesn't handle symlinks, whereas Cwd's realpath would.

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Re^3: Simple Path Cleanup by wesley.spikes (Initiate) on May 10, 2009 at 16:12 UTC
Thank you, that actually jogged me into remembering to check link status before running remove_path. That would've been a pretty big mistake.	[reply]
Re^3: Simple Path Cleanup by Your Mother (Archbishop) on May 10, 2009 at 16:46 UTC
You're right. Good clarification.	[reply]