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Eecks. (Score:1)

by Abigail (26)

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.
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  by Alias (5735)
  
  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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