NAME

Meta::Utils::File::Remove - package that eases removal of files and directories.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2001, 2002 Mark Veltzer; All rights reserved.

LICENSE

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA.

DETAILS

        MANIFEST: Remove.pm
        PROJECT: meta
        VERSION: 0.30

SYNOPSIS

        package foo;
        use Meta::Utils::File::Remove qw();
        Meta::Utils::File::Remove::rm($filename);
        Meta::Utils::File::Remove::rmdir($dirname);

DESCRIPTION

This module eases the use of rm. Instead of checking for errors all of the time just let this module remove a file or directory for you (it has all the options including a recursive one...). If something happens wrong it dies on you but hey - thats the price you got to pay...

FUNCTIONS

        rm($)
        rmdir($)
        rmall($)
        rmrmdir($)
        rmrecusrive($)
        rmhash($)
        rmlist($)
        rmmult($)
        TEST($)

FUNCTION DOCUMENTATION

rm($)

This function removes a single file and throws an exception if it cannot do so. This function does not return a value.

rmdir($)

This function removes a directory and throws an exception if it cannot do so. This function does not return a value.

rmall($)

This function assumes that you dont know if what you're looking to remove is a file or a directory and removes whichever this is... It dies if it cannot perform. The function tries to test if the unknown is a file first since it assumes that most stuff that will need delting is files (I hope I'm right here...:). If the unknown is neither a file nor a directory then the function will throw an exception.

rmrmdir($)

This function removes a file and then removes the directory in which it is located if it remains empty. Actually this function should continues going higher....:) up the directory tree.

rmrecusive($)

This function removes a directory in a recursive fashion. It uses the File::Find function to achieve this (unlinking dirs is not good...:) It also uses the rmall function to achieve this (nice trick...).

rmhash($)

This routine removes a whole hash. As expected, demo and verbose arguments are also allowed.

rmlist($)

This routine removes a whole list. As expected, demo and verbose arguments are also allowed.

rmmult($)

This function receives the regular demo and verbose variables and treats the standard input as a source for lines, each representing a file to be removed. The function removes all the files refered as such. The function returns whether all the removals were successful or not.

TEST($)

Test suite for this module. This suite should be called by a higher level to test the functionality of this module. Currently this test suite tries to remove a non existant file and catches the error.

SUPER CLASSES

None.

BUGS

None

AUTHOR

        Name: Mark Veltzer
        Email: mailto:veltzer@cpan.org
        WWW: http://www.veltzer.org
        CPAN id: VELTZER

HISTORY

        0.00 MV initial code brought in
        0.01 MV make quality checks on perl code
        0.02 MV more perl checks
        0.03 MV make Meta::Utils::Opts object oriented
        0.04 MV check that all uses have qw
        0.05 MV fix todo items look in pod documentation
        0.06 MV more on tests/more checks to perl
        0.07 MV make lilypond work
        0.08 MV correct die usage
        0.09 MV lilypond stuff
        0.10 MV perl code quality
        0.11 MV more perl quality
        0.12 MV more perl quality
        0.13 MV perl documentation
        0.14 MV more perl quality
        0.15 MV perl qulity code
        0.16 MV more perl code quality
        0.17 MV revision change
        0.18 MV languages.pl test online
        0.19 MV perl packaging
        0.20 MV fix database problems
        0.21 MV md5 project
        0.22 MV database
        0.23 MV perl module versions in files
        0.24 MV movies and small fixes
        0.25 MV thumbnail user interface
        0.26 MV more thumbnail issues
        0.27 MV website construction
        0.28 MV web site automation
        0.29 MV SEE ALSO section fix
        0.30 MV md5 issues

SEE ALSO

Error(3), File::Find(3), Meta::Error::FileNotFound(3), Meta::Utils::Output(3), strict(3)

TODO

-rm_rmdir should climb higher and keep removing dirs (its not doing that right now...).

-start using a parameter module to determine things like verbosity and demo mode (where we dont really do the removing but rather just climb back on top).

cpanm Meta::Init

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Meta::Init