Hello abhi_perl, and welcome to the Monastery!

Your script is OK (apart from the absence of use strict, of course!). The problem seems to be a — well, shall we say, an eccentricity — of Windows: a file access does not (by default) change the “date accessed” attribute of the file.

A Google search on “ Windows "date accessed" ” brought up this link: http://www.vistaheads.com/forums/microsoft-public-windows-vista-file-management/176698-date-accessed-attribute-not-updating.html. Following the advice there — i.e., changing one registry setting and rebooting — fixed the problem on my system. With this change, your script should work as expected.

A tip: in situations like this, put in print statements to find out what Perl is actually seeing. I used:

    foreach my $file (@files)
    {
        printf "-A %s = %d\n", $file, -A "$userpath/$file"; 
        printf "-M %s = %d\n", $file, -M "$userpath/$file"; 
    }

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from which it was obvious that the “access date” attribute was mostly the same as the “modified date” attribute. This was easily confirmed via Windows Explorer.

HTH,

Athanasius <°(((>< contra mundum

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

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