if($opt_h){
 die "\agecmd.pl -d[days to age]\n";
}
if($opt_d){
if($opt_d gt 9){
  die "Error: days option must be a number. Use agecmd.pl -d[days to a
+ge]\n";
}
...
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if($opt_h){
 die "\agecmd.pl -d[days to age]\n";
}
if($opt_d){
if($opt_d gt 9){
  die "Error: days option must be a number. Use agecmd.pl -d[days to a
+ge]\n";
}
...
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the 1st if statement here says if the user uses -h appended to the end of the script file, die an tell them how to run the command properly.

the second part says: if it is not a number, die, otherwise set $agedays to $opt_d (the value of -d).

Normally, I would run agecmd.pl -d90

By switching the two, you have made the d option the help option, and made the -h option the number of days. By not specifying -d, $agedays is then set to 60 by default, giving you no problems.

By taking things out, and changing the code, it's hard to know what happened. Does you have problems if you run the original code with no mods? Can you post your new code?

if ($opt_h){
    die "\agecmd.pl -d[days to age]\n";
}

if ($opt_d){
    if ($opt_d gt 9){ #tests for strings
        die "Error: days option must be a number.  Use agecmd.pl -d[da
+ys to age]\n";
    }else{
    $agedays=$opt_d;
    }
}
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-OzzyOsbourne

The only thing changed in the new code is the -h to -d. I still have to replace the path names..to find and delete the files on my PC.
Here is the new code:


#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w

#Call Module

use File::Find;
use File::Copy;
use Getopt::Std;
getopts('d:h');


#Initialize Variables

$server='server104';
$dirl='\\\\'."$server".'\\d$';
$agedays=60;    #defaults agedays to 60


#Process arguments ([h]elp, [d]ays)

if ($opt_d){
    die "\agecmd.pl -d[days to age]\n";
}

if ($opt_d){
    if ($opt_d gt 9){    #tests for strings
        die "Error: days option must be a number.  Use agecmd.pl -d[da
+ys to age]\n";
    }
        else{
            $agedays=$opt_d;
        }
}


#Do date calculations

@xtime=localtime(time);
$day=$xtime[3]+1;
$month=$xtime[4]+1;
$year=$xtime[5]+1900;
$hours=$xtime[2];
$mins=$xtime[1];
$secs=$xtime[0];
$logname='//server1/d$/'."ftp$month$day$year$hours$mins$secs".'.log';

$agesecs=60*60*24*$agedays;    #converts $agedays to seconds
$daysago=time-$agesecs;        #the time stamp of $agedays ago in seco
+nds
$daysago2=localtime($daysago);    #the time stamp of $agedays ago in w
+ords - mainly for printing


#Find the files (no dir) on the server

print "finding files to be aged\.\.\.\n";
find(\$wanted, $dirl);

sub wanted {
    $filesecs = (stat("$File::Find::dir/$_"))[9];    #Gets the 9th ele
+ment of file stat -                                                  
+       

# the modified time
    $filesecs2=localtime($filesecs);
    if ($filesecs<$daysago && -f){        #-f=regular files, eliminate
+ DIR p.367
        push (@files,"$File::Find::dir/$_");
        push (@files,"$filesecs2");
    }
    print'.';
}


#replace '/' with '\' in file names

foreach (@files){
    s/\//\\/g;
}


#Write to Log

%filehash=@files;    #puts the array into a hash for easy printing. Ke
+y=file, Value=date
open OUT, ">$logname" or die "Cannot open $OUT for write :$!";
print OUT "FTP server aging log generated by PERL script\n";
print OUT "Script written by Ozzy on 4/18/00\n";
print OUT "Files deleted from \\\\$server on ".localtime(time)."\n";
print OUT "Files deleted before $daysago2\n";
print OUT "Files were aged $agedays days\n\n";
print OUT "File Listing:\n\n";
foreach $filename (sort keys %filehash){
    print OUT "filename    $filehash{$filename}\n";
}
close OUT;


#Delete files

print "\nDeleting all files before $daysago2";
#unlink $filehash;
print "\nScript complete.";
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~Seema