NAME

File::Remove - Remove files and directories

SYNOPSIS

use File::Remove qw(remove);

remove \1,"file1","file2","directory1","file3","directory2","file4",
    "directory2","file5","directory3";

# removes only files, even if the filespec matches a directory
remove "*.c","*.pl";

# recurses into subdirectories and removes them all
remove \1, "directory"; 

DESCRIPTION

File::Remove::remove removes files and directories. It acts like rm for the most part. Although unlink can be given a list of files it will not remove directories. This module remedies that. It also accepts wildcards, * and ?, as arguments for filenames.

remove

Removes files and directories. Directories are removed recursively like in rm -rf if the first argument is a reference to a scalar that evaluates to true. If the first arguemnt is a reference to a scalar then it is used as the value of the recursive flag. By default it's false so only pass \1 to it. In list context it returns a list of files/directories removed, in scalar context it returns the number of files/directories removed. The list/number should match what was passed in if everything went well.

rm

Just calls remove. It's there for people who get tired of typing 'remove'.

EXAMPLE

See SYNOPSIS.

BUGS

Not that I know of. ;)

AUTHOR

Gabor Egressy gabor@vmunix.com

Copyright (c) 1998 Gabor Egressy. All rights reserved. All wrongs reversed. This program is free software; you can redistribute and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.