Deleting a directory

Rob Pengelly posted this at 22:22 — 19th March 2000.

Joined: Jul 1999

What is the best way to go around deleting a directory (and the files in that directory) ?

rmdir will only work if there is nothing in the file from what I understand. There must be other posibilities?

Thanks

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Orpheus posted this at 22:45 — 19th March 2000.

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rmdir -r

i think thats it

japhy posted this at 07:11 — 21st March 2000.

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code:

use File::Path 'rmtree';
rmtree $path;
# or rmtree [ $path1, $path2 ]
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perldoc File::Path

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