RE: system("rm") problem

2001-10-05 Thread Schooley, Chris
McCoy". ;) - sorry -Original Message- From: Brett W. McCoy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 05, 2001 8:27 AM To: Tyler Cruickshank Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: system("rm") problem On Fri, 5 Oct 2001, Tyler Cruickshank wrote: > Hi. Im running perl

Re: system("rm") problem

2001-10-05 Thread Brett W. McCoy
On Fri, 5 Oct 2001, Tyler Cruickshank wrote: > Hi. Im running perl via cygwin on NT. I want to remove all files *.1.txt. > > I have tried: > > 1) system("rm *.t.txt"); > > 2) $file = '*.1.txt'; > system("rm $file"); > > 3) system('rm *.1.txt'); You don't need to use the system call for tha

system("rm") problem

2001-10-05 Thread Tyler Cruickshank
Hi. Im running perl via cygwin on NT. I want to remove all files *.1.txt. I have tried: 1) system("rm *.t.txt"); 2) $file = '*.1.txt'; system("rm $file"); 3) system('rm *.1.txt'); ...but, I cant get any of them to work. Any ideas? Thanks for your time. -tyler -- To unsubscribe, e-