>
> Hi,
>
> I wanted to not use the rm command (not to make the program OS
> independent,
> just to make it $PATH independent!), and so, used the following code:
>
> my $deleted = unlink ('$fifo_dir/$pipe');
Change the single quotes to double quotes:
my $deleted = unlink ("$fifo_dir/$pipe");
Cheers,
Offer Kaye