Perl has the means to do many things, though this particular example can also be solved with the following shell command, or bourne shell script containing this command. Be careful where you invoke this! 
# find . -type f -mtime +2 | xargs -i rm {}

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In Perl, you could use the File::Find module in conjunction with the aforementioned -M operator to accomplish the same thing as that shell command, and much more. You should also check out the stat function, which provides detailed inode information. Again, please be careful. This code deletes everything under $dir. 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use File::Find;

my @files = ();
my @paths = ();
my $dir = '/home/kurtw/perlmonks/test5';

find(\&_filewanted, $dir);

for my $file ( @files ) {
 if (unlink $file) {
 print "removing $file\n";
 } else {
 print "could not unlink $file\n";
 }
}

sub _filewanted {
 if ( ((-M $_) > 2) && -f $_  ) { # files, not directories
 push @files, $File::Find::name;
 }
}

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In reply to Re: How do you write a perl script to calculate the age of a file by kurt1992
in thread How do you write a perl script to calculate the age of a file by kleinbiker7

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