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Perl in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition
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Perl in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition

by Nathan Patwardhan, Ellen Siever, Stephen Spainhour
June 2002
Beginner content levelBeginner
759 pages
80h 42m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Name

rmtree

Synopsis

rmtree (root, prt, skip)

Deletes subtrees from the directory structure, returning the number of files successfully deleted. Symbolic links are treated as ordinary files. Takes the following arguments:

root

Root of the subtree to delete or reference to a list of roots. The roots, and all files and directories below each root, are deleted.

prt

Boolean. If true, rmtree prints a message for each file, with the name of the file and whether it’s using rmdir or unlink to remove it (or if it’s skipping the file). Default is false.

skip

Boolean. If true, rmtree skips any files to which you do not have delete access (under VMS) or write access (under other operating systems). Default is false.

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