Boss this is the main issue with most of the guys here on perlmonks.
They think everything should be in perl itself and think that pure perl can take them to the other side.
When something gets stuck, then go out to CPAN or post another query here.
We have a unix system and should recognize the power of that OS which has been there since 30 years ago.
What is the problem there in shipping out something to shell when the work gets done easily. After all, perl also was derived from unix itself.
Tools are just tools (the old comment) and simply use them to get the job done.
Now someone will say your script has to be portable, and blah blah.
These are all minor things I would say.
Regarding that question now. The original question lists the output of ls -lrt.
This is a simple script and we can forget about execution speed here.Any intelligent guy would never run the script without reading the code. He would first list out the files instead of deleting them. But since this code is workable (tested few times on my home directory), so I had to put that rm -rf there.
Can't write more now. Leave it....

In reply to Re^3: removing files with perl based on age and name by gurpreetsingh13
in thread removing files with perl based on age and name by Jocqui

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