Re^4: File::Find seems grossly inefficient for performing simple file tasks

Greetings RichardK, and thanks for taking the time to respond!
Yes. I know what you mean. The 7 bit wasn't crystal clear to me, either. :P
I'm guessing (as my OS is concerned) ctime -- Creation-time, will probably be my best choice of targets. As I'm looking for any symlink with a creation-time more than 11 minutes ago. I suppose I could create something that grabs, and holds "current time", and break out the "minutes" portion, then capture the ctime of those files searched for -- also breaking out the minutes portion; comparing >=11 minutes && rm, or something.
I don't know. Guess I've got some more reading to do.

Thanks again for your reply!

--chris

#!/usr/bin/perl -Tw
use perl::always;
my $perl_version = "5.12.4";
print $perl_version;

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Re^5: File::Find seems grossly inefficient for performing simple file tasks by RichardK (Parson) on Apr 28, 2013 at 13:21 UTC
Really, there's no need to do anything that complex. time returns seconds since the epoch so you just need to compare ctime against (time() - N) for whatever N seconds you need.	[reply]