Casey West writes ..
>On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 05:37:27PM -0400, Casey West wrote:
>: On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 03:16:41PM -0700, Peter Lemus wrote:
>: : Hi,
>: : I'm having some trouble trying to execute the followin
>: : command from a perl script.
>: : rmdir /s /q username #this works from the command line
>: : in win2k.
>: : I tried:
>: : system 'rmdir /s /q $user' # no luck. Any
>: : suggestions?
>:
>: My first suggestion is to look at the '$?' variable, it holds the
>: error code for system() calls.
>:
>: system( "romdir /s /q $user" ) || dir $?;
>
>dir??? "Casey, that's supposed to be die(), dummy."
and 'romdir' is surely meant to be 'rmdir' .. someone needs some sleep ;)
still the question remains - why call out to the system when the same thing
can be done in Perl
perldoc File::Path
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