deleting in a .pl scrip

knowram · 03-09-2007, 05:43 PM

I am a first time poster an new to scripting. I found a cool little script at

http://herselfswebtools.com/2007/02/...p-for-osx.html

I have changed it a little so it will take sequential images. I would also like to a line to delete the image from the local host after it is uploaded.

how would I do this?

Thanks for the help

dannystaple · 03-09-2007, 05:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by knowram

I am a first time poster an new to scripting. I found a cool little script at

http://herselfswebtools.com/2007/02/...p-for-osx.html

I have changed it a little so it will take sequential images. I would also like to a line to delete the image from the local host after it is uploaded.

how would I do this?

Thanks for the help

The simplest way in perl might be just to use the backtick operator and the system rm command:
`rm $filetoremove`.
This should do the trick. It is not the most perlish way. Perl may have an "unlink" command as a builtin which will do it in a more perl only fashion.

Looking here - http://perldoc.perl.org/perlfunc.html - I think that unlink will do the trick - http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/unlink.html.

knowram · 03-09-2007, 06:09 PM

Thanks worked great

trickykid · 03-09-2007, 09:51 PM

Moved to a more appropiate forum.