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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Remove files from a directory using perl Post 302238126 by KevinADC on Friday 19th of September 2008 04:12:32 AM
Old 09-19-2008
He wants to unlink from the temp directory, so:

Code:
unlink "/dir/temp/filename"

 

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UNLINK(1)							   User Commands							 UNLINK(1)

NAME
unlink - call the unlink function to remove the specified file SYNOPSIS
unlink FILE unlink OPTION DESCRIPTION
Call the unlink function to remove the specified FILE. --help display this help and exit --version output version information and exit AUTHOR
Written by Michael Stone. REPORTING BUGS
Report unlink bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/> Report unlink translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/> COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. SEE ALSO
unlink(2) The full documentation for unlink is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and unlink programs are properly installed at your site, the command info coreutils 'unlink invocation' should give you access to the complete manual. GNU coreutils 8.12.197-032bb September 2011 UNLINK(1)
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