On Wednesday December 31 2008 13:34, you wrote:
>On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 9:42 AM, Christoph Leser
<[email protected]> wrote:
>> #!/usr/bin/perl
>> `cd /path-to-dir`:
>> `rm *`;
>
>You shouldn't be using backticks in a perl script. Backtick simply
>starts a new process/subshell and runs whatever you have in the
>backticks. If you're writing perl, use perl's syntax, and you won't
>have these issues.
Try the below instead of the subprocess commands. Verify that unlink
command first though; i don't work with globs in perl much and might
have munged the syntax.
chdir "/path-to-dir";
unlink <*>;
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