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Hi, which function is better to delete a folder in windows platform $path="c:/temp"; rm $path rmtree $path any example or better way to do this?

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Re: remove directory in perl
by ikegami (Patriarch) on May 20, 2009 at 14:54 UTC

    There is rmdir (for empty dirs) and File::Path::rmtree (for entire trees).

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      i want to delete directories/sub directories based on their modified date
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        See stat for some information on how to get Modify Time of a directory. It returns an array with various data on a supplied file or directory. 
        #last modify time of /usr/bin:
print scalar localtime((stat("/usr/bin"))[9]);
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 my $SECONDS_IN_DAY = 60*60*24;
 $days_old =  (time-(stat($dirname))[9]) / $SECONDS_IN_DAY;
 if($days_old > 5){
   #do_something
 }

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