Re: perlfaq5 & perlfunc

[email protected] (_brian_d_foy) Tue, 01 Feb 2005 20:09:03 -0600
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In article <20050201225612.GA6669@mauritiusjai>, Gerard Robin
<[email protected]> wrote:

> why in perlfaq5 there is no explanation to remove a file :

> How to remove a file in perl ?


> I searched in perlfunc, but I didn't find such function. It seems
> evident that the reader have to know the language C i.e. the fonction 
> "unlink" 

That's mostly because you don't remove files, just links to it.  You
can unlink a file without deleting the data.  This may be a good
candidate for a FAQ though.

> And when I did:
> wget http://www.cpan.org/misc/olddoc/FMTEYEWTK.tgz

works for me. *shrug*

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brian d foy, [email protected]