Re: Perl Question Recap

--- Mike Egglestone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > thanks for all the inputs !!! Just condensing all the answers given (more for myself) >I'm really new to Perl and I'm guessing that >I can't run shell commands within a perl script... Check out system() and exec()...

Re: Perl Question Recap

thanks for all the inputs !!! I ended up using the rmtree command... I needed to execute this in Perl because I have a web based emailer written in Perl... One part of the program will create an upload directory for the user ... however... I couldn't get a quota on it so I just delete the

Perl Question Recap

Mike's Question: I want to delete a directory that will have files in it...I don't know the name of the files there for wildcards might be needed I understand that "rmdir" will wipe out an empty directoryand "unlink" will wipe out files (only if I know the names of the files) Wha