My first thought is why do a '-e' if you are going to do a '-s' too? -s returns false on non-existing files. It has to exist to have a size.

Do you have an oddball filesystem? Old version of perl? Is the file a symlink?

Can you rewrite the code like this? 

{
  my $s= -s $file;
  my $m= -M $file;
  if ($s and $m > 3) {
    &sendfile($file) # does it return a checkable value?
  } else {
    die "file: $file\nsize: $s, time: $M\n";
  }
}

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Or if you can, debug mode is your friend. The code you sent "WorksForMe", with or without the '-e'.

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In reply to RE: Date checking files for a cache by extremely
in thread Date checking files for a cache by strredwolf

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