Re: Processing files in a directory

of course, there are many ways to do a job in perl. Its upto the implementer
to choose.

-Susheel

On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 10:40 PM, John W. Krahn <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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