What's the best strategy to delete a very huge folder using Perl?

Posted by André Diniz on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by André Diniz
Published on 2010-04-02T16:58:17Z Indexed on 2010/04/02 17:03 UTC
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Hi,

I need to delete all content (files and folders) under a given folder. The problems is: folder has millions of files and folders inside it. So I don't want to load all the file names in one go. Did you catch the issue?

Logic should like this:

  • iterate a folder without load everything
  • get a file or folder
  • delete it
  • go to the next one

Thanks for your help.

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