package File::Path; =head1 NAME File::Path - create or remove directory trees =head1 SYNOPSIS use File::Path; mkpath(['/foo/bar/baz', 'blurfl/quux'], 1, 0711); rmtree(['foo/bar/baz', 'blurfl/quux'], 1, 1); =head1 DESCRIPTION The C function provides a convenient way to create directories, even if your C kernel call won't create more than one level of directory at a time. C takes three arguments: =over 4 =item * the name of the path to create, or a reference to a list of paths to create, =item * a boolean value, which if TRUE will cause C to print the name of each directory as it is created (defaults to FALSE), and =item * the numeric mode to use when creating the directories (defaults to 0777), to be modified by the current umask. =back It returns a list of all directories (including intermediates, determined using the Unix '/' separator) created. If a system error prevents a directory from being created, then the C function throws a fatal error with C. This error can be trapped with an C block: eval { mkpath($dir) }; if ($@) { print "Couldn't create $dir: $@"; } Similarly, the C function provides a convenient way to delete a subtree from the directory structure, much like the Unix command C. C takes three arguments: =over 4 =item * the root of the subtree to delete, or a reference to a list of roots. All of the files and directories below each root, as well as the roots themselves, will be deleted. =item * a boolean value, which if TRUE will cause C to print a message each time it examines a file, giving the name of the file, and indicating whether it's using C or C to remove it, or that it's skipping it. (defaults to FALSE) =item * a boolean value, which if TRUE will cause C to skip any files to which you do not have delete access (if running under VMS) or write access (if running under another OS). This will change in the future when a criterion for 'delete permission' under OSs other than VMS is settled. (defaults to FALSE) =back It returns the number of files successfully deleted. Symlinks are simply deleted and not followed. B There are race conditions internal to the implementation of C making it unsafe to use on directory trees which may be altered or moved while C is running, and in particular on any directory trees with any path components or subdirectories potentially writable by untrusted users. Additionally, if the third parameter is not TRUE and C is interrupted, it may leave files and directories with permissions altered to allow deletion (and older versions of this module would even set files and directories to world-read/writable!) Note also that the occurrence of errors in C can be determined I by trapping diagnostic messages using C<$SIG{__WARN__}>; it is not apparent from the return value. =head1 DIAGNOSTICS =over 4 =item * On Windows, if C gives you the warning: B, this may mean that you've exceeded your filesystem's maximum path length. =back =head1 AUTHORS Tim Bunce > and Charles Bailey > =cut use 5.006; use Carp; use File::Basename (); use Exporter (); use strict; use warnings; our $VERSION = "1.07"; our @ISA = qw( Exporter ); our @EXPORT = qw( mkpath rmtree ); my $Is_VMS = $^O eq 'VMS'; my $Is_MacOS = $^O eq 'MacOS'; # These OSes complain if you want to remove a file that you have no # write permission to: my $force_writeable = ($^O eq 'os2' || $^O eq 'dos' || $^O eq 'MSWin32' || $^O eq 'amigaos' || $^O eq 'MacOS' || $^O eq 'epoc'); sub mkpath { my($paths, $verbose, $mode) = @_; # $paths -- either a path string or ref to list of paths # $verbose -- optional print "mkdir $path" for each directory created # $mode -- optional permissions, defaults to 0777 local($")=$Is_MacOS ? ":" : "/"; $mode = 0777 unless defined($mode); $paths = [$paths] unless ref $paths; my(@created,$path); foreach $path (@$paths) { $path .= '/' if $^O eq 'os2' and $path =~ /^\w:\z/s; # feature of CRT # Logic wants Unix paths, so go with the flow. if ($Is_VMS) { next if $path eq '/'; $path = VMS::Filespec::unixify($path); if ($path =~ m:^(/[^/]+)/?\z:) { $path = $1.'/000000'; } } next if -d $path; my $parent = File::Basename::dirname($path); unless (-d $parent or $path eq $parent) { push(@created,mkpath($parent, $verbose, $mode)); } print "mkdir $path\n" if $verbose; unless (mkdir($path,$mode)) { my $e = $!; # allow for another process to have created it meanwhile croak "mkdir $path: $e" unless -d $path; } push(@created, $path); } @created; } sub rmtree { my($roots, $verbose, $safe) = @_; my(@files); my($count) = 0; $verbose ||= 0; $safe ||= 0; if ( defined($roots) && length($roots) ) { $roots = [$roots] unless ref $roots; } else { carp "No root path(s) specified\n"; return 0; } my($root); foreach $root (@{$roots}) { if ($Is_MacOS) { $root = ":$root" if $root !~ /:/; $root =~ s#([^:])\z#$1:#; } else { $root =~ s#/\z##; } (undef, undef, my $rp) = lstat $root or next; $rp &= 07777; # don't forget setuid, setgid, sticky bits if ( -d _ ) { # notabene: 0700 is for making readable in the first place, # it's also intended to change it to writable in case we have # to recurse in which case we are better than rm -rf for # subtrees with strange permissions chmod($rp | 0700, ($Is_VMS ? VMS::Filespec::fileify($root) : $root)) or carp "Can't make directory $root read+writeable: $!" unless $safe; if (opendir my $d, $root) { no strict 'refs'; if (!defined ${"\cTAINT"} or ${"\cTAINT"}) { # Blindly untaint dir names @files = map { /^(.*)$/s ; $1 } readdir $d; } else { @files = readdir $d; } closedir $d; } else { carp "Can't read $root: $!"; @files = (); } # Deleting large numbers of files from VMS Files-11 filesystems # is faster if done in reverse ASCIIbetical order @files = reverse @files if $Is_VMS; ($root = VMS::Filespec::unixify($root)) =~ s#\.dir\z## if $Is_VMS; if ($Is_MacOS) { @files = map("$root$_", @files); } else { @files = map("$root/$_", grep $_!~/^\.{1,2}\z/s,@files); } $count += rmtree(\@files,$verbose,$safe); if ($safe && ($Is_VMS ? !&VMS::Filespec::candelete($root) : !-w $root)) { print "skipped $root\n" if $verbose; next; } chmod $rp | 0700, $root or carp "Can't make directory $root writeable: $!" if $force_writeable; print "rmdir $root\n" if $verbose; if (rmdir $root) { ++$count; } else { carp "Can't remove directory $root: $!"; chmod($rp, ($Is_VMS ? VMS::Filespec::fileify($root) : $root)) or carp("and can't restore permissions to " . sprintf("0%o",$rp) . "\n"); } } else { if ($safe && ($Is_VMS ? !&VMS::Filespec::candelete($root) : !(-l $root || -w $root))) { print "skipped $root\n" if $verbose; next; } chmod $rp | 0600, $root or carp "Can't make file $root writeable: $!" if $force_writeable; print "unlink $root\n" if $verbose; # delete all versions under VMS for (;;) { unless (unlink $root) { carp "Can't unlink file $root: $!"; if ($force_writeable) { chmod $rp, $root or carp("and can't restore permissions to " . sprintf("0%o",$rp) . "\n"); } last; } ++$count; last unless $Is_VMS && lstat $root; } } } $count; } 1;