Question

I am using rm to delete some files from a directory through a Perl script but it throws the error
can't exec "rm" no such file or directory.

Command goes like this :

system("rm $directory$files"); $directory$files = /var/spool/mqueue/qf*

Answer 1

Perl has a builtin function for removing files, unlink. The third example shows how to use it in combination with glob to delete a list of files:

unlink glob "*.bak";

or in your case,

unlink glob($directory.$files);