I received advice on CB today and while I am trying to implement the advice into my sub I find it deleting all files not just files with .bak extensions, even trying to delete the directories. The example that was given to me was for a print, I tried to translate the example into a system call and a print but I am having trouble with it.

Here is the example given to me on cb

@matches; find(sub { push @matches, $File::Find::name if /\.bak\z/ }, $search_dir);

And here is my attempt of implementing it into my script 

 
use strict;
use warnings;
use File::Find;

deleteBak();

sub deleteBak {
    my $searchdir = '/emc/cccadm/scripts/perl/etc-test';
    my ($answer, $file, @bak);
    print "Are you sure you would like to delete all *.bak files that 
+exist in: $searchdir [yes/no] ";
    chomp($answer = <STDIN>);
    if ($answer eq 'yes'){
            my @bak;
        find(sub { 
            @bak = ($File::Find::name) if /\.bak\z/ or print ("No File
+s\n");
            foreach $file (@bak) {
                system("rm -f $file");
                print "Deleting $file\n";
            }
        }, $searchdir);
    }    else {
        print "You did not enter [yes]. Exiting program.\n";
        exit;
    }
}

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In reply to Need help deleting *.bak files by MikeDexter

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