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in reply to search folder and delete certain files with perl

#!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; for my $file ( </var/opt/xim/syslogs/Syslogd*> ) { if ( -M $file > .5 ) { unlink $file or warn "Cannot delete '$file' because: $!"; } }