This is the Perlmonks, so we'll do a version in Perl (not thoroughly tested): 
use strict;
use warnings;

use File::Find;
use Mail::Send;

my $curtime = time();
find(\&wanted, qw(/home/arjen/test));

sub wanted {
    # Warning: the ctime field is not really the creation time!
    # See perlport (File and Filesystems)
    return if (($curtime - (stat($File::Find::dir))[10])) > 900;
    return if $_ !~ /\.out$/;
    open(FILE, "<$_") or die "Cannot open $_: $!\n";
    while (my $line = <FILE>) {
        last if $line =~ /error/;
    }
    close(FILE);
    my $msg = Mail::Send->new(Subject => "Error found!",
                              To => "operator\@datacenter");
    my $fh = $msg->open();
    print $fh "We found an error in $_!\n";
    $fh->close();
    print "Mail sent\n";
}

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Arjen

In reply to Re: File Search by Aragorn
in thread File Search by mikevanhoff

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