On Jan 05 12:13, Ramprasad A Padmanabhan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> But why do you want to do it in perl ( why not rm -f $dir/* $dir/.* )
> , If you are removing all the 4000 files everytime it might make sense
> to remove the entire directory and recreate it.
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> Ram
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That is what
> That looks very, very wrong. You're binding a scalar to
> something other than a regular expression. Tell us what you
> are attempting to do here.
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> HTH,
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> Charles K. Clarkson
yeah, I agree. Here is the scenario:
I have a Mac client that is grabbing pictures and writing them to a ne
