Command or script to delete hidden files on ftp?

[Jason Priest]

is there a command or script I can run on my web site to clear out
hidden files in a directory, files that were accidently chmod' to not
appear?

 

[Anno Siegel]

is there a command or script I can run on my web site to clear out
hidden files in a directory, files that were accidently chmod' to not
appear?

You are confused. "chmod" controls access permissions, it doesn't change
the visibility of files.

You probably want to find files whose name starts with a ".". Start with
looking up opendir, readdir, and unlink in perlfunc.

Anno

 

[Joe Smith]

is there a command or script I can run on my web site to clear out
hidden files in a directory, files that were accidently chmod' to not
appear?

It could be the directory which has bad permissions - that could
make *all* of the files in the directory inaccessible.

print join("\n\t",'before chmod',<$directory/*>),"\n\n";
chmod 0755,$directory; # Or 0711
print join("\n\t",'after chmod',<$directory/*>),"\n";

-Joe