Hi All, I am trying to append filename to a logfile when i archvie it. A day old file needs to be renamed to the previous day. Example. output.log to be renamde to output.log.20090628 I have the following code, that checks if the age is 1 for the file. If it is one day old, then I need to rename it. If it is 14 days old I need to delete it. 
chdir $main::logFolder or die "can't cd";
# I am not sure what to populate here for $yesterday 
$Yesterday;
foreach (glob("*")) {
    $age = -M;
    if ($age==1)  {
        #rename Log File to .log.yyyymmdd
        rename ($_, $_ .$Yesterday"
    }
    else if($age > 14) {
        unlink $_;
    }

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