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09-22-2006

jerardfjay jerardfjay is offline

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perl unlink question

Hi,

I have a two lines of code both intend to perform the same task.

Code:

                 unlink $CtrFile;
                 system ("rm $CtrFile");

Both of which try to delete a certain file. However when I use the unlink command the file does not get deleted. When I use the "rm" system command, the file gets deleted. Any ideas as to why the "rm" would behave differently than the unlink command?

Thanks
jerardfjay :-)

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