note kyoshu you do not have the file on the system or you<br> are trying to delete file which you can not delete<br> because of file permisions, or you execute your<br> script from some other directory than ../data/.<br> <pre> # mkdir dir # touch dir/file # ls dir/ file # perl -e 'unlink "dir/file" or die "failure\n";' # ls dir/ # </pre> 467211 467211