Perl Language: How To Remove Directory in Perl Program

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How to Remove a directory on desktop using Perl Language?

There are times when you want to get rid of some directory before you can run another program. And in such case you have to make use of the remove directory option in the perl language. You can make use of the rmdir option. Here you can see that you have to use this code and specify the expression, which stands for the directory which you need to get rid of. So your syntax may look something like this.

rmdir()

So the code for removing the directory in the perl would look liek this.

rmdir ("/tmp")

You can also set some sort of condition if the directory is not removed or some other error then you can call the die() method.

rmdir ("/tmp") || die  ("error in deleting directory: $?");

As you can see this can be simple code that you can try out in your perl program. Do let me know if it worked for you.

I hope that this tutorial article helped.

If you haven't checked out the first video in the series. Check how to run program in Perl .

Also do check out the second video on the Variables in Perl language.

Tips for Running Perl Code

You can check the installation of the perl by typing the following code if you are on unix or linux, in case of windows you have to check the path if perl bin folder is added there.

which perl

Perl code requires you to have the code stored in the .perl file extension file. This way when you run the perl code say it's in the file named helloworld . pl

You can run the perl file on command prompt like this.

perl helloworld . pl

That's it. You can now execute the perl code on your computer.

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