amar reddy

• Nov 27th, 2006

 

rm -r directoryname

Chintz

• Nov 28th, 2006

 

I want to know about perl! How to remove a dir (which has multiple files in it) in perl?

Chintz

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• Nov 28th, 2006

 

I want to know the perl command and not unix! I know I can use this command through ``(backtick) however do we have a function in perl which removes the dir (which has files) ? rmdir removes only an empty dir!

Shreedhar Naik

• Feb 7th, 2007

 

The PERL Command to remove a directory is: rmdir

madan kumar nath

• Feb 14th, 2007

 

In Perl you can only remove emplty directories. To delete a non empty directory,you have to recurse into the directory, remove the files and then remove the files.

Vijay

• Feb 16th, 2007

 

try system("rmdir /dir/filename");

Vijay

• Feb 16th, 2007

 

Trysystem("rmdir /dir/dir1");

Jai Siddagangappa

• Feb 16th, 2007

 

rmtree($dir) ;  

where, $dir = path where the directory to be removed, resides. for eg, to delete the Test dir in C:

$dir="C:Test"; 

Yograjkingaonkar

• Mar 9th, 2007

 

rmdir definately doesnot work however you can use CPAN module File::Remove
Though it sounds like deleting file but it can be used also for deleting directories.
&File::Remove::remove (1, $feed_dir, $item_dir );

Removes files and directories. Directories are removed recursively like in rm -rf if the first argument is a reference to a scalar that evaluates to true. If the first arguemnt is a reference to a scalar then it is used as the value of the recursive flag. By default it's false so only pass 1 to it.

verman

• Jul 4th, 2007

 

rm -fR <directory name>

this will forcefully delete the directory irespective of any files in it.

narendra meher

• Aug 21st, 2007

 

We can use system command as

system("rm -rf dirname");

it will work

Prakash

• Sep 22nd, 2007

 

User can use this

rm -rf <directoryName>

shijumic

 Profile Answers by shijumic 

• May 1st, 2008

 

try ` rm -rf dirname`

wow_suraj

 Profile Answers by wow_suraj 

• May 2nd, 2008

 

You can use 'rm -rf folderName to remove the folder, it will remove the folder even if it is non-empty.

nitashaa

 Profile Answers by nitashaa 

• Jul 15th, 2008

 

1. system("rm -rf","directorypath");
2. A perl script can be created that'll make use of unlink , opendir,readdir,rmdir functions.
#!/usr/bin/perl
opendir(FD,"/home/tmp"); ---------> open tmp directory .Its just like open function
my @arr = readdir(FD); --------> read all the files in temp directory
closedir(FD);
print "list of files @arrn";
unlink(@arr); -------> remove all the files
rmdir("/home/tmp"); -------> remove tmp directory

maulikthaker

 Profile Answers by maulikthaker 

• Dec 16th, 2009

 

$dir = /path/

system("rm -Rf $dir");

Navrattan

• Oct 8th, 2013

 

rmtree () is function which is used to remove a directory which has files in it

Gaurav.khurana

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• Apr 18th, 2015

 

r should be small here i.e.
`rm -rf /home/udzial/*`