#!usr/bin/perl -w use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser); use File::Copy; use strict; my $dir = '/usr/home/public_html/content/1'; opendir (my $ls, $dir) or die $!; while (my $file = readdir ($ls)) { if ( !(-d $file)){ chomp($file); if (unlink($dir . '/' . $file)) { print "File $file deleted successfully.\n"; } else { print "File $file was not deleted: $!.\n"; } } else{ print "Directory\n"; } } closedir $ls;