What about (assuming *nix) use strict;
my $search_string = "Whatever you want to find"; my @found = `grep -ls $search_string *`; chomp( @found ); unlink( @found ); or are you working under Windows? ----- Original Message ----- From: "james" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 3:51 PM Subject: unlinking all files that contain a specified string hi, all! friday while trying to clean up a directory, i thought i could bang out a quick-and-dirty perl script that would let me achieve what i needed, to delete all text files in a subdirectory that contain a specified string. i was able to use the perl command unlink(filename) and grep manually, but i couldn't seem to put them together in a script that would do what i needed. does anybody know how to do this? (i'm asking out of laziness so i'm hoping the person who answers this doesn't have to put much, if any, effort into doing so :)) thanks, james -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
