in reply to Deleting Files

not perl, but.. assuming that by "30 days older" you mean files that have had their content last changed 30+ days ago: 
find  . -mtime +30 -exec rm -v '{}' \; >logfile.txt

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Be careful where you run that.

updated: added quotes

"What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"

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Re^2: Deleting Files
by mickeyn (Priest) on Oct 07, 2006 at 17:04 UTC
    find2perl ...

    will allow you to do more perlish manipulations inside the find loop.

    Enjoy,
    Mickey

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