note Kenosis <p>You have the following:</p> <c> =item B<-a, --amount> Search for files older than <amount> days, mandatory. </c> <p>In two days, there are 2 * 24 * 60 * 60 or 172800 seconds, thus it seemed that the following was needed:</p> <c> $amount = $amount * 24 * 60 * 60; </c> <p>since one day equals 24 * 60 * 60 or 86400 seconds. Additionally, the following worked when I ran it using the above formula for <c>$amount</c>:</p> <c> $result = grep { /.+\.$suffix$/ and $time - ( $_->stat )[9] >= $amount } io($dir)->all; </c> <p>An equivalent search can be done using [http://search.cpan.org/~rclamp/File-Find-Rule-0.33/lib/File/Find/Rule.pm|File::Find::Rule]:</p> <c> $result = File::Find::Rule->file() ->maxdepth(1) ->name(qr/.+\.$suffix$/i) ->mtime(">= $amount") ->in($dir); </c> <p>And the following, too, but <c>grep</c>ping on days old instead of using <c>mtime</c>:</p> <c> $result = grep { -M >= $amount / 86400 } # Convert back to days File::Find::Rule->file() ->maxdepth(1) ->name(qr/.+\.$suffix$/i) ->in($dir); </c> <p>All three methods produced the same result, even when an equivalent constant was used for the days in the last <c>grep</c>.</p> <p>After adjusting the <c>$amount</c> formula, your original code produced the same result, too:</p> <c> $result = grep { $_ == 1 } map { $time - $_ >= $amount } map { ( $_->stat )[9] } # e.g i'm interested in this... grep { $_->name =~ /.+\.$suffix$/ } # ...and this io($dir)->all; </c> <p>Thus, all four code snippets produced identical results.</p> 1006618 1006632