Here is some code I have used to find out how many seconds old a specified file(s) is. 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;


#-- Use modules
use File::stat;
use Time::Local;
use Time::localtime;


#-- Define local constants


#-- Define local variables
my $lNow;
my $lStat;


#-- Initialize variables
$lNow=localtime();
$lNow=timelocal($lNow->sec,$lNow->min,$lNow->hour,$lNow->mday,$lNow->m
+on,$lNow->year);


#-- Process all files
foreach (@ARGV)
{

  #-- Get the file's status
  $lStat=stat($_) || die 'Could not stat file ['.$_.']...';

  #-- Print the time
  print $_,"\t",($lNow-$lStat->mtime()),' seconds old',"\n";

}


#-- End of Script

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I hope this helps.

In reply to Re: Epoch mod time for files by Rhose
in thread Epoch mod time for files by costas

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