What about something simple? Simply tell the user that if the first command line arguement is a directory, all the listed files will be assumed to be in that directory.

You could do something like this: 

my @arr;
if ( -d $ARGV[0] ) {
  my $dir = shift @ARGV;
  @arr = map { "$dir/$_" } @ARGV;
}
else {
  @arr = @ARGV;
}

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I would also warn you against using unlink the way you are. Very, very, very bad things can happen if you unlink a directory that has files in it. I would prefer to loop through the array and do them one-by-one: 
for ( @arr ) {
  if ( -d $_ ) {
    print "nice try - I cannot unlink directories\n";
    next;
  }
  unlink $_;
}

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mikfire

In reply to Re: Newbie Question -- Changing File Path? by mikfire
in thread Newbie Question -- Changing File Path? by KStowe

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