A minor correction: some of the posters above used -C or "ctime" and mentioned them in the same breath as "create time". There's no create time in Unix. The "ctime" value is the "last inode change" value: the last time anything "changed" about the file, such as contents, permissions, ownership, or number of links (including renaming).

"Files over two weeks old" is often an ambiguous specification. For deleting items from a cache, I suggest the "atime" value (most recent access), as it is often indicative of an orphan when there are no more accesses in a long time.

As for using Perl to zap files with big atimes, I'd go for a command-line-written chunk of code: 

$ find2perl /some/dir -atime +14 -eval unlink >MyProggy
$ chmod +x MyProggy
$ ./MyProggy # as you wish

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-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

In reply to Re: Deleting files over 2 weeks old? by merlyn
in thread Deleting files over 2 weeks old? by bingeldac

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