How do I perform operations on entire directories (delete them, copy them, etc.)?
First of all see the File::Path module and see if it has what you want. It can delete an entire directory tree as well as do the equivalent of “mkdir -p”. To traverse an entire directory tree, see File::Find and its equivalents.. To do the equivalent of “cp -R” (i.e: copy an entire directory tree recursively) in portable Perl, you’ll either need to write something yourself or find a good CPAN module for that.
