Deleting files using wildcards?

[Mike Burdick]

Hi,

I'm not too sure how to delete files using wildcards. For example: I would like to delete all the .gif files in a directory called temp. Is this how it is done?

unlink(<temp/*.gif>);

...or should it be inside some sort of loop?

Thanks...

[Mike Burdick]

Well...

This is what I ended up using - good, bad, or indifferent - it works.
I was a little timid playing with wild cards lest make a mistake and lose some valuable files:eek:


#Path to my files. Company that hosts your site will tell
#you the exact path. But if you put the files there, you'll
#already know this.
#This will delete all the .gif files located in the temp directory.


$filepath= "somedirectory/somethingelse/temp/*.gif";
@mylist=glob($filepath);
unlink @mylist;

[Jeff Mott]

Don't worry, Mike. You did it exactly right.

[Mike Burdick]

Thanks Jeff,

I had these visions of losing my all the gif files and wanted to seek advise before trying something - so backed up everything before "flipping the switch" (don't ask me how I learned this). :D Better safe than sorry!