SPUG: Problem deleting files
Dave Campbell
campbell at geospiza.com
Thu Nov 30 12:55:50 CST 2000
> Ok.. I'm having a problem deleting files. I have tried:
>
> $oldfile="../html/wrt_archive/weekly_archive/*to$twodaysback*\.*";
1) are you sure that your are in the right directory to be using the
relative path shown? Why not use absolute paths?
2) I think the syntax for using wildcard name expansion with unlink is:
unlink </tmp/testfiles/*>; #So sayeth the camel...
-dave
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