in reply to Correct code for deleting old file?

I really doubt it is the right way of deleting the file(s) @taxonomy_file_url points at. The getFile subroutine does a lot of work on the filename (which I suspect is not a filename at all but rather an URL or URI, and maybe even have wildcards in it) that handing the raw filename to unlink could cause all kinds of mayhem on your system.

As someone already said: much better to check for the existence of the file inside the getFile subroutine and handle that situation then and there.

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