> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tony Esposito [mailto:tony1234567...@yahoo.co.uk]
> Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 12:02
> To: beginners@perl.org
> Subject: Fw: deleting subdirectories only in Win32
>
> It appears that, after doing more research, the keep_root
> variable does not keep the \data folder intact but removes
> it. Unless I am mistaken, is there another method to
> cleaning a directory of files and subdirectories without
> removing the directory itself?
> (I know I can do it programmatically but I was wondering if
> there was a '1-liner' like the one previously listed).
>
but that is not what the doc states:
keep_root => $bool
When set to a true value, will cause all files and subdirectories to be
removed, except the initially specified directories. This comes in handy when
cleaning out an application's scratch directory.
So I would at least get ahold of the maintainer:
AUTHORS
Tim Bunce and Charles Bailey. Currently maintained by David Landgren
<da...@landgren.net>.
What it is advertising and doing are not right.
My 2 cents...
If you have any questions and/or problems, please let me know.
Thanks.
Wags ;)
David R. Wagner
Senior Programmer Analyst
FedEx Freight
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>
> ----- Forwarded Message ----
> From: Tony Esposito <tony1234567...@yahoo.co.uk>
> To: Beginners Perl <beginners@perl.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, 13 May, 2009 12:56:45
> Subject: deleting subdirectories only in Win32
>
> Hello,
> When trying to delete subdirectories and their files on
> WinXP SP3, the following code also removes the root directory
> of the subdirectories. Can I get some assistance? I want to
> keep C:\my\data intact but I am losing the \data folder
>
> #
> # Code to remove all files and subdirectories under C:\my\data
> #
> perl -e "use File::Path; rmtree('C:/my/data',{keep_root => 1,
> safe => 1});"
>
>
>
>
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