RE: [PHP-GENERAL] problems removing a directory
| From: | Liz Kimber | Date: | Mon, 05 Jun 2000 06:41:22 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP-GENERAL] problems removing a directory | ||
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Try inserting the full directory path so
/home/you/web/images/$dirname
Liz
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Juan Luis Baptiste [mailto:juancho@metallica.com]
> Sent: 04 June 2000 23:35
> To: php-general@lists.php.net
> Subject: [PHP-GENERAL] problems removing a directory
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm having little trouble removing a non empty directory. rmdir only
> deletes empty directories, so I tried doing this:
>
> exec("rm -fr images/$dirname");
>
> But it does nothing, and if I try rmdir("images/$dirname"); it says
> directory not empty, and if I try unlink("images/$dirname/*.jpg"); it
> says no such file or directory, but the directory exists and has some
> files on it.
>
> what can I do?
>
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> Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
> Ingenieria de Sistemas
> Linux Registered User #119248
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