I need to do recursive deletes. But according to perldoc I should not
use unlink. I should use rmdir. However rmdir does not work unless the
directory is empty.... Should I just system rm -r ....
>From perldoc
unlink LIST
unlink Deletes a list of files. Returns the number of
files successfully deleted.
$cnt = unlink 'a', 'b', 'c';
unlink @goners;
unlink <*.bak>;
Note: `unlink' will not delete directories unless
you are superuser and the -U flag is supplied to
Perl. Even if these conditions are met, be warned
that unlinking a directory can inflict damage on
your filesystem. Use `rmdir' instead.
If LIST is omitted, uses `$_'.
bash-2.03$ perldoc -f rmdir
rmdir FILENAME
rmdir Deletes the directory specified by FILENAME if
that directory is empty. If it succeeds it
returns true, otherwise it returns false and sets
`$!' (errno). If FILENAME is omitted, uses `$_'.
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