> -----Original Message----- > From: AndrewMcHorney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 20 November 2008 15:19 > To: beginners@perl.org > Subject: Determining if a file is more than so many days old > > Hello > > I am working on a perl script that will go through a directory and > it's subdirectories and purge all the files that are more than a > specified number of days old. I am using a Unix system so I do a find > command to gather up the files I want. I then am going to do a stat > command to find the date the file was created (it is never modified) > and then determine if it is to be deleted. What is the easiest way to > determine if a date is more than x number of days old. > > Andrew > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://learn.perl.org/ >
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