#!/usr/bin/perl -wT use strict; use Time::Piece; my $daysago = 28; my $datadir = "/var/adm"; # MMDDYY of 28 days ago my $timestring = localtime(time-$daysago*24*60*60)->strftime("%m%d%y"); my $file = "$datadir/backup.$timestring.log.Z"; -e $file or die "File '$file' doesn't exist"; unlink $file or die "Couldn't unlink '$file'";