open FH ">foo.txt"; print FH "blah" close FH; open FH1 ">foo.txt"; print FH1 "blah" close FH1; unlink "foo.txt"; # `DELETE FOO.TXT;2` if ($^O eq 'VMS') { unlink "foo.txt" } # `DELETE FOO.TXT;1` #### 1 while unlink $filename;