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in thread some problem with date

Thank you Krambambuli will there be any problem in copying yesterdays file.

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Re^3: some problem with date
by Krambambuli (Curate) on Apr 13, 2007 at 15:03 UTC
    Well... once you know which they are, I guess not (or that's another problem), but it is important to correctly define what are 'yesterday files'.

    I think it would be not an decision based on file_age_in_days, but rather something like 'those files that have creation date between yesterday 00:00:00 and today 00:00:00'.

    Something like below:
    use strict; use warnings; use Date::Manip; use File::stat; my $yesterday = ParseDate( 'yesterday midnight' ); my $today = ParseDate( 'today midnight' ); my $yesterday_midnight = &UnixDate( $yesterday, "%s" ); my $today_midnight = &UnixDate( $today, "%s" ); my @yesterday_files = (); foreach my $file ( <*> ) { my $stat = stat( $file ) or die "Cannot stat file $file: $!\n"; my $creation_date = $stat->ctime; push( @yesterday_files, $file ) if ( $creation_date < $today_midnight and $creation_date > $yesterday_midnight ); } foreach my $file (@yesterday_files) { # process, copy, ... }