Hi Friends,

I am new to perl. I am trying to work on a perl script which will delete only those files on a particular path which are older than 7 days in terms of accessed date of the files. However, it seems not working. But, when i put a condition "M" it does work for a modified date condition. Below is the code. Please suggest what should I do. Thanks for your help and suggestion.

#!/usr/local/bin/perl-w 
my $username = getlogin;
my $userpath = "C:/Users/$username/AppData/Local/Temp/Data";
print $username;
opendir (DIR, "$userpath") ||
die ("Unable to open directory");
@files=readdir(DIR);
closedir(DIR);
foreach $file (@files) {
    if (-A "$userpath/$file" > 7) {
        print ("$file\n");
        print $userpath."/".$file;
        unlink $userpath."/".$file;
        print "File deleted successfully\n";
    }
}

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In reply to Script to delete only those files on a path whose accessed date is more than 7 days by abhi_perl

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