Hi Monks!
I have this sub routine running to delete files older then 7 days, but I think that this line " if ($now-(stat $file)[9]  > $age) { # file older than 7 days" is not getting the numbers right, even if I just create a new file it still gets seeing, can someone see what I can't!
sub del_old{

 my $age = 60*60*24*7;  # convert 7 days into seconds
 my $now = time();       # get current time
 
 # Delete files older than 7 days.
 opendir (DIR, "old") or die "Couldn't open directory, $!";

   while (my $file = readdir DIR) {
     next if $file=~/^\./;
     if ($now-(stat $file)[9]  > $age) { # file older than 7 days
       print "This $file wil be deleted\n";
     }

   }

 closedir DIR;

}

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Thanks for looking!

In reply to Delete old files by Anonymous Monk

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