Note that -M returns the age (in days) of the file since the program started so if you plan on using an infinitly looping script, you might want to set $^T to time... $^T = time; to make sure -M returns the true age of the file. $^T contains the date/time when the script was started ad -M uses it to find the age in days.If your script has been running 10 days, and the file itself has been edited last 5 days before you started the script, normally -M would return 5.xxxxxx (minutes, seconds, etc) and not 15.xxxxxx. With that $^T, it would be 15.xxxxx
Update: Oki, this can look confusing... rephrased a bit

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In reply to Re: Question about - M by Beatnik
in thread Question about - M by grahm

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