Steve Grazzini wrote at Wed, 06 Aug 2003 23:38:00 -0400:
> On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 11:49:20PM -0400, perlwannabe wrote:
>> I have made the script as simple as possible and cannot get
>> unlink to work.
>>
>> unlink ("c:\testdir\*030977*.*") || die "unlink failed: $!";
>
> You'd need to expand the wildcards yourself:
>
> my $pat = 'c:\testdir\*030977*.*';
> foreach (glob($pat)) {
> unlink or warn "Couldn't unlink '$_': $!";
> }
Or if you want to write it as a one liner,
you can exploit that unlink also takes a list as its arguments:
unlink glob "c:/testdir/*030977*.*" or die "No files unlinked: $!";
Greetings,
Janek
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