Can some one show me how I capture mtime so I can compare it to the current time. I want to loop through a directory of files and delete the ones that are more than 3 days old. 
sub clean_up{
my ($dir) = @_;
my @files = ();
my ($seconds, $min, $hour);
my $time = timelocal($seconds, $min, $hour, (localtime)[3,4,5]);

    find sub { push @files, $File::Find::name; }, $dir;
    @files = sort @files;

        foreach my $file (@files){
        my ( $mtime ) = (stat($file))[8];
        utime(time, $mtime, $file);
        print "$time\n";
        $time -= (60*60*24);
             unlink $file if ($mtime > $time);
        }#end foreach loop

}#end clean_up

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In reply to How do I compare the results of my files mtime by mnlight

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