recursive directory removal question 1

[varakal]

I need to remove directories recursively. I was wondering if there is any perl function equivalent to unix function 'rm -r directory_name'. rmdir function removes a directory only when it is empty. If there anyway that I can force the directory and all contents in it to get deleted. I can have a loop running through the directories to remove each one of them, but that would be second option I will attempt only if there is no direct function or module equivalent to 'rm -r'.

Thanks.

 

[PaulTEG]

system "rm -r $directory";

Have a look at File::Remove on

http://search.cpan.org

HTH
--Paul

cigless ...

 

[varakal]

File::Remove is exactly what I am looking for. Thanks Paul.