On Fri, 5 Oct 2001, Tyler Cruickshank wrote: > Hi. Im running perl via cygwin on NT. I want to remove all files *.1.txt. > > I have tried: > > 1) system("rm *.t.txt"); > > 2) $file = '*.1.txt'; > system("rm $file"); > > 3) system('rm *.1.txt');
You don't need to use the system call for that -- take a look at the File::Copy module (using your perldoc tool) and see what it offers. -- Brett http://www.chapelperilous.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The first 90% of a project takes 90% of the time, the last 10% takes the other 90% of the time. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]