in reply to unlink fails to delete files with perculiar names

unlink ($targ) || carp "Unable to delete file $targ\n";

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Unlink is different than "delete".

Can you provide more information about how and why "unlink" does not work?

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Re^2: unlink fails to delete files with perculiar names
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Nov 22, 2011 at 09:54 UTC
    Unlink is different than "delete".

    Do stop pushing this pointless distinction.

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