I would like to delete all the file in a directory using only "rmdir" in perl script. I'm trying to clean up a directory first and then trying to write file. I know i can just use rmtree (" directory path"); but i'm unable to use that for FTP server (use Net::FTP;). and rmdir looks for empty directory. i have tried "remove_tree" and "rm -rf". i do have read/write access to the server, but i'm unable to delete files. Perl script: 
finddepth (\&remove_dir, "$path");
rmdir ( "$path" ) or die ("Could not remove $path");

sub remove_dir
{
  # for a path, this will be 0
  if ( ! (stat("$File::Find::name"))[7] ) 
  { $ftp->rmdir("$File::Find::name"); }
  else
  { $ftp->unlink("$File::Find::name"); }
}

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In reply to Recursive delete files using perl script by tipu123

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