This can be irrelevant to your current problems but can save you on future problems: -M $filepath can return a negative age too! :    -M  Script start time minus file modification time, in days. (see -X).

Secondly, you are creating "exception" being some kind of hash with a key also called "exception" and then in your last code you compare $exception as a string. I would doublecheck that this $exception is indeed $exception->{'exception'} and not the original hash exception.

Thirdly and most importantly, the first chunk of code you showed has an if-statement which the first branch returns nothing. So your "age" exceptions are not returned. The second branch does return an exception HASH though.

Perhaps, place my $exception; after if( -e $filepath), then go through all your exception if-checks, remove all other my $exception... and finally return $exception only if it is defined. To achieve a state of lift-off you need to insert two more closing curly brackets.

In reply to Re: Origin of 'md5sum' and 'sh' logs by bliako
in thread Origin of 'md5sum' and 'sh' logs by drw

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