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safe_unlink

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safe_unlink(*files) public

Removes a list of files. Each parameter should be the name of the file to delete. If the last parameter isn’t a String, verbose mode will be enabled. Returns the number of files deleted.

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# File lib/ftools.rb, line 168
  def safe_unlink(*files)
    verbose = if files[-1].is_a? String then false else files.pop end
    files.each do |file|
      begin
        unlink file
        $stderr.print "removing ", file, "\n" if verbose
      rescue Errno::EACCES # for Windows
        continue if symlink? file
        begin
          mode = stat(file).mode
          o_chmod mode | 0200, file
          unlink file
          $stderr.print "removing ", file, "\n" if verbose
        rescue
          o_chmod mode, file rescue nil
        end
      rescue
      end
    end
  end

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