Hello spookyjack123, and welcome to the Monastery!

I think the following (untested) code will do what you want:

#! perl
use strict;
use warnings;

my $current_time = time;
my $old_time     = $current_time - (60 * 60 * 24 * 5);
printf "Current time is %d, old time is %d\n", $current_time, $old_tim
+e;

my $directory = '/home/gac3/plugins/Essentials/userdata';
my @to_delete;

for my $YMLfile (<"$directory/*.yml">)
{
    open(my $fh, '<', $YMLfile) or die "Cannot open file '$YMLfile' fo
+r reading: $!";

    while (<$fh>)
    {
        if (/ ^ \s* login: \s+ ( \d+ ) $ /x)
        {
            push @to_delete, $YMLfile if int($1 / 1_000) < $old_time;
            last;
        }
    }

    close $fh                   or die "Cannot close file '$YMLfile': 
+$!";
}

unlink @to_delete;

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Note that the timestamps in your sample data are 3 digits longer than the output of Perl’s time function. I have simply truncated the timestamp; you may need to adjust this part of the script.

Hope that helps,

Update: Fixed the call to unlink. Thanks to Kenosis for the heads-up!

Athanasius <°(((>< contra mundum

In reply to Re^5: Reading every file in a directory by Athanasius
in thread Reading every file in a directory by spookyjack123

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