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Recursive Delete

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BostonChowder

Technical User
Sep 8, 2001
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US
I am trying to delete a large tree of files on my server. What I need is a way to delete it quickly using php.

I usually use telnet with rm -rf directory
But I do not have telnet access to this particular server. How can I do this in PHP?
 
I had some trouble with this.

I used
exec('rm -rf modules');

to remove the directory "modules" which was in the same directory as the php script holding this command.

I had echo statemants on each side of the command and they printed out, but the directory was never deleted.
 
verify that the user_id that the script runs under has permission to delete that directory.


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