File::Remove - Remove files and directories

       Shlomi Fish <shlomif@cpan.org>

       Please     report     any     bugs     or     feature     requests     on    the    bugtracker    website
       <http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=File-Remove>  or  by   email   to   bug-file-remove@rt.cpan.org
       <mailto:bug-file-remove@rt.cpan.org>.

       When  submitting  a  bug  or request, please include a test-file or a patch to an existing test-file that
       illustrates the bug or desired feature.

       Taken over by Shlomi Fish (<http://www.shlomifish.org/>) while disclaiming all  rights  and  placing  his
       modifications under CC0/public-domain/MIT/any-other-licence.

       Some parts copyright 2006 - 2012 Adam Kennedy.

       Taken  over  by  Adam  Kennedy <adamk@cpan.org> to fix the "deep readonly files" bug, and do some package
       cleaning.

       Some parts copyright 2004 - 2005 Richard Soderberg.

       Taken over by Richard Soderberg <perl@crystalflame.net> to port it to File::Spec and add tests.

       Original copyright: 1998 by Gabor Egressy, <gabor@vmunix.com>.

       This program is free software; you can redistribute and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

       This software is copyright (c) 1998 by Gabor Egressy.

       This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under  the  same  terms  as  the  Perl  5
       programming language system itself.

perl v5.36.0                                       2022-10-13                                  File::Remove(3pm)

File::Remove::remove removes files and directories.  It acts like /bin/rm, for the most part.  Although
       "unlink" can be given a list of files, it will not remove directories; this module remedies that.  It
       also accepts wildcards, * and ?, as arguments for filenames.

       File::Remove::trash accepts the same arguments as remove, with the addition of an optional, infrequently
       used "other platforms" hashref.

       File::Remove - Remove files and directories

remove
       Removes files and directories.  Directories are removed recursively like in rm-rf if the first argument
       is a reference to a scalar that evaluates to true.  If the first argument is a reference to a scalar,
       then it is used as the value of the recursive flag.  By default it's false so only pass \1 to it.

       If the next argument is a hash reference then it is a key/values of options.  Currently, there is one
       supported option of "'glob' => 0" which prevents globbing. E.g:

           remove(\1, {glob => 0}, '*');

       Will not remove files globbed by '*' and will only remove the file called asterisk if it exists.

       In list context it returns a list of files/directories removed, in scalar context it returns the number
       of files/directories removed.  The list/number should match what was passed in if everything went well.

   rm
       Just calls remove.  It's there for people who get tired of typing remove.

   clear
       The "clear" function is a version of "remove" designed for use in test scripts. It takes a list of paths
       that it will both initially delete during the current test run, and then further flag for deletion at
       END-time as a convenience for the next test run.

   trash
       Removes files and directories, with support for undeleting later.  Accepts an optional "other platforms"
       hashref, passing the remaining arguments to remove.

       Win32
           Requires Win32::FileOp.

           Installation  not  actually enforced on Win32 yet, since Win32::FileOp has badly failing dependencies
           at time of writing.

       OS X
           Requires Mac::Glue.

       Other platforms
           The first argument to trash() must be a hashref with two keys, 'rmdir' and 'unlink', each referencing
           a coderef.  The coderefs will be called with the filenames that are to be deleted.

   expandDONOTUSE. Kept for legacy.

   undeleteDONOTUSE. Kept for legacy.

Websites
       The following websites have more information about this module, and may be of help to you. As always,  in
       addition to those websites please use your favorite search engine to discover more resources.

       •   MetaCPAN

           A modern, open-source CPAN search engine, useful to view POD in HTML format.

           <https://metacpan.org/release/File-Remove>

       •   RT: CPAN's Bug Tracker

           The RT ( Request Tracker ) website is the default bug/issue tracking system for CPAN.

           <https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=File-Remove>

       •   CPANTS

           The CPANTS is a website that analyzes the Kwalitee ( code metrics ) of a distribution.

           <http://cpants.cpanauthors.org/dist/File-Remove>

       •   CPAN Testers

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           distributions.

           <http://www.cpantesters.org/distro/F/File-Remove>

       •   CPAN Testers Matrix

           The CPAN Testers Matrix is a website that provides a visual  overview  of  the  test  results  for  a
           distribution on various Perls/platforms.

           <http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=File-Remove>

       •   CPAN Testers Dependencies

           The CPAN Testers Dependencies is a website that shows a chart of the test results of all dependencies
           for a distribution.

           <http://deps.cpantesters.org/?module=File::Remove>

   Bugs/FeatureRequests
       Please  report  any bugs or feature requests by email to "bug-file-remove at rt.cpan.org", or through the
       web   interface   at   <https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Report.html?Queue=File-Remove>.   You   will    be
       automatically notified of any progress on the request by the system.

   SourceCode
       The  code  is open to the world, and available for you to hack on. Please feel free to browse it and play
       with it, or whatever. If you want to contribute patches, please send me a diff or prod me  to  pull  from
       your repository :)

       <https://github.com/shlomif/File-Remove>

         git clone git://github.com/shlomif/File-Remove.git

           use File::Remove 'remove';

           # removes (without recursion) several files
           remove( '*.c', '*.pl' );

           # removes (with recursion) several directories
           remove( \1, qw{directory1 directory2} );

           # removes (with recursion) several files and directories
           remove( \1, qw{file1 file2 directory1 *~} );

           # removes without globbing:
           remove( \1, {glob => 0}, '*');

           # trashes (with support for undeleting later) several files
           trash( '*~' );

       version 1.61