>   system("rm -rf $file");
>
> But if you copied this from another source, that source was totally
> unaware that deletion of files like THAT is TOTALLY unsafe.  A safer
> approach is:
>
>   system("rm", "-rf", $file);

I'm not aware of the reason for it.

What's a good way to find which perl doc contains the thing I need to read
about?

This will prolly make me look stupider than I wasn't to be of something then
of, but:

C:\>perldoc system
No documentation found for "system".

/g


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