Something like this using File::Find, which IMHO is an overkill for what you need,
since you are just going through one directory, you could consider using opendir, if you want.

use warnings;
use strict;
use File::Find qw(find);

die "No directory is specified" unless defined $ARGV[0];

my $dir = $ARGV[0];

find( \&unwanted, $dir );

sub unwanted {
    if (/^\.{1,}/) { return }
    else {
        print "Do you want to delete ", $_, $/;
        chomp( my $ans = <STDIN> );
        unlink $_ if $ans =~ /\by\b/;
    }
}

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NOTE: Deleting a file could be both dangerous and so painful if in error, a wrong file is deleted, hence the need to check the file before deleting.
Hope this helps.

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In reply to Re: deleting a file in perl by 2teez
in thread deleting a file in perl by keralaqueen234

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