I personally believe one may also play with some code from http://dev.perl.org/perl1/dist/example.gz (which I found mentioned in a recent post.) Actually it would be interesting to rewrite equivalent code in pre-5.10 Perl 5 code, in 5.10 if it has some advantage, and perhaps in Perl 6 if it is interesting. I'm skipping gsh and trying some of the shorter examples:

        #!/bin/perl
    open(goners,"find . -mtime +14 -print|");
    while (<goners>) {
        chop;
        unlink;
    }
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Ah! Larry, Larry! You must be a n00b ;) Don't we suggest the use of File::Find and relatives all the time?

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use File::Find;
use 5.010;

find { no_chdir => 1,
       wanted => sub { unlink if -f -M > 14 } }, '.';

__END__
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(I don't think you want to unlink directories, anyway, don you?)

    #!/bin/perl

    die "Usage: euthanasia directory days" unless $#ARGV == 1;

    ($dir, $days) = @ARGV;        # assign array to list of variables

    die "Can't find directory $dir" unless chdir $dir;

    open(goners,"find . -mtime +$days -print|") || die "Can't run find
+";
    while (<goners>) {
        chop;
        unlink;
    }
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#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use File::Find;
use File::Basename;
use 5.010;

BEGIN {
    my $name = basename $0; 
    sub USAGE () { "Usage: $name <directory> <days>\n" }
}

die USAGE unless @ARGV == 2;
my ($dir, $days) = @ARGV;

find { no_chdir => 1,
       wanted => sub { unlink if -f -M > $days } }, $dir;

__END__
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And now, I'm half way through working on scan_df but I must get out of my house in a few minutes, so I'll complete that later...

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