NAME
    File::Remove - Remove files and directories

SYNOPSIS
        use File::Remove qw(remove);

        # removes (without recursion) several files
        remove qw( *.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 *~ );

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

DESCRIPTION
    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.

SUBROUTINES
    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 arguemnt 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.

        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.

    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.

BUGS
    See http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=File-Remove for the
    up-to-date bug listing.

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

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

    Original copyright: (c) 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.