To be real simple, instead of using the month/date/year approach, you could simply use epoch as your time refernce, and do some simple math to get your answer: 
#!/usr/bin/perl
opendir(DIR, "/home/archive/logs/old");
@FileList = readdir(DIR);
closedir DIR;

$current_epoch = timelocal ((localtime)[0,1,2,3,4,5]);

foreach $file (@FileList) {
  $file .= "/home/archive/logs/old" . $file;
  $file_epoch = (stat($file))[9];
  if (($current_epoch - $file_epoch) > "604800") {
   unlink("$file);
  }
}

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Or you could look at Date::Calc to do it your way.

Update: merlyn, I noticed what I had typed and was changing as you were correcting me. Heh, I gotta be faster with the code checking next time.

In reply to Re: del files that is 7 days or older by Pahrohfit
in thread del files that is 7 days or older by NodeReaper

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