Rm delete files in subdirectories

Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Here is the code that I used:! Barton Chittenden Barton Chittenden 4, 2 2 gold badges 23 23 silver badges 46 46 bronze badges. Actually, each is a Perl function. Jonathan Leffler, Not in that situation it's not. Barton Sorry my mistake on the code, it was a typo. I am using foreach in my code but the problem persists. To add to that, it was working just fine last afternoon but since then I made various changes to my code but this little bit is causing problems and I'm still not able to figure out why.

It was a stupid mistake. I dint specify the whole path to the file while deleting and I was just passing the filename. I fixed it and its working just fine. Thanks all! Mujeeb khan Mujeeb khan 23 1 1 silver badge 6 6 bronze badges. I have files and folders that need to be deleted and hence I was using rm -rf. But unlink should work just fine on both files and folders right?

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