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Monday October 23, 2006
07:26 AM

File::Remove 0.32_01: Testers wanted

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I've just uploaded my first devel release after taking over maintenance of File::Remove.

This release now allows remove to delete read-only files within a recursive delete if the user has permissions control and can set a file back to writeable (and I've added tests for this behaviour).

I've also done a variety of house cleaning tasks, using File::Spec a bit better, and adding some common sense special cases, such as remove saying it has deleted a path, if the path passed to it didn't exist anyway.

This version should now also work on Perl versions before 5.6.

Since a hell of a lot of modules sit on top of File::Remove, I'd appreciate it if people could test it for me, particularly if you have exotic or unusual hardware, or really old Perl versions.


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  • From the documentation:

    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.

    Lovely, a magical first value of \1. That must make for some scores of very sad maintainance programmers.

    I've never used File::Remove, and after seeing this, I doubt I ever will.

    • Indeed, I hate it... but hey it works and it's very common.

      I would like to have a go at another module though at some point (although I doubt very much that will happen) that would be a safer delete.

      Prescan the tree and work out if you SHOULD be able to delete it, then do it seperately.

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