Re: Deleting files

Anders F wrote:

Is there a Perl subroutine for deleting files?

There's a builtin. It's called "unlink".

http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/unlink.html

The reason for the odd name is because on Unix, there's no garantee that
if you succesfully apply this function on a file, that it will indeed be
deleted. There' something called a "hard link", so there can be multiple
directory entries, possibly in more than one directory, for the same
file. "unlink" will remove one such directory entry (called a "link").

Only when all links are gone, will the file contents indeed be deleted.

--
Bart.
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