Re: Processing files in a directory
[email protected] ("John W. Krahn") Mon, 10 Nov 2008 21:40:56 -0800
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Susheel Koushik wrote:
> use the PERL system command. Its a wrapper for system call on your host OS.
>
> ex: system("rm *.tmp");
Why, when you can just do:
unlink <*.tmp>;
John
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