Re: Deleting files remotely

NewbeeUnix wrote (upside down):

Write a shell script will telnet to remote machine and go the requisite
directory and delete all the files.
execute the shell script using system function in perl.

But since this is a Perl group why not write a Perl script will telnet
to remote machine and go the requisite directory and delete all the
files.

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