You have a precedence error. Your code should be: if(  ( -A $file || 0 ) > 30  ) { || is a logical operator so it binds less tightly than comparison operators because you usually use it like: if(  -A $file > 30  ||  -M $file > 60  ) { and precedence is designed so that most common usages don't require parens (except for the bitwise operators which inheritted their broken precedence from C).

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