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  • Eecks. (Score:1)

    by Abigail (26) on 2006.10.23 10:11 (#51197) Journal
    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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