kaka_2 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi Experts, I am into monitroing solution and good with shell scrpting but perl is just new to me. i am looking for a help from you guys. i need a perl script which run on windows server and do the following. 1. Check if a File abc was modified or not in last X minutes. if yes check next condition else action. 2. Check if the size of file is greater than XXX KB/MB/GB. if it not check next else action. Your help will really appriciated.

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Re: Perl script on windows node
by tobyink (Canon) on Apr 03, 2012 at 08:22 UTC

    Read the perlfunc sections about "-X", "stat" and "time".

    use 5.010;
use strict;

my $modified_within  = 60 * 5;           # 5 minutes
my $size_limit       = 1024 * 1024 * 2;  # 2 MB

my $file = "/some/file/name";

if ([stat $file]->[9] > time - $modified_within)
{
    if (-s $file > $size_limit) {
        say "File is recent, and over size limit";
    }
    else {
        say "File is recent, but not over size limit";
    }
}
else
{
    say "File is not recent";
}

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Re: Perl script on windows node
by nikosv (Deacon) on Apr 03, 2012 at 19:16 UTC
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