> I have a directory "Abs" with a file "abc" in it.
> I am using rmtree to rm this dir as follows
>
> use File::Path;
> rmtree("Abs",1,1) or die "dir not del";
> print "done";
> ----
>
> The output is
>
> unlink ../htdocs/store/newpages/Abstract/abc
> ----
>
> It neither prints the die statement nor the done - ofcourse
> it doesn't
> actually delete the file and the dir at all.
You might want to try putting a hard return in your die to make sure it
flushes (even if that's not the problem, it's a good habit), and also
checking the actual error message, like so:
my $dir = 'Abs';
rmtree("$dir",1,1) or die "couldn't rmtree [$dir]: $!\n";
HTH,
-dave
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