deleting .parentlock file of firefox

[goude]

Hi everyone

I've written this perl line to delete the .parentlock file in firefox directory.

#!/usr/bin/perl                                                    
use strict; 
use warnings;

system ("find /home/joan/.mozilla/firefox -name .parentlock -exec rm {} \;");

The error I get is: /.mozilla/firefox: No such file or directory

I assume this has to do with the fact that .mozilla directory is hidden???
Any suggestions please?

Thank you

[bigtomrodney]

The path there is wrong in the error:-

/.mozilla/firefox

...should be something like...

~/.mozilla/firefox
/home/$USER/.mozilla/firefox

It's reading a hard path from root (/ ). Is that the exact code you're using above?

[goude]

yes that's the one I'm using.

You are right at least it should point out the whole directory (/home/$USER/.mozilla/firefox) in the error.

[bigtomrodney]

Is the /home/joan/ part generated by a variable or is it literally as it reads there?

[goude]

Is generated by this variable:

my $user=`whoami`;

[goude]

I changed it a bit to:

my $user=`whoami`; 
my $dir= '/home/$user';

system("find $dir/.mozilla/firefox/ -name .parentlock -exec rm {} \;");

Error: find: missing argument to `-exec'

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my $dir= '/home/$user';

should be

my $dir= "/home/$user";

But now I get the same error as before.