delete old files (windoze)

[softworkz]

Hi everyone!

I have this script that I wrote and I need some comments on it. I want to clean (delete) old files in the temp directory and it seems to work on my local machine but when I run it on a test server (as administrator) I'll get errors on files were not found (I believe it's File::Find) but if I do a windoze search I can't find the files either (folder options set to view EVERYTHING) I'm also wondering which way would be the CORRECT way to actually delete the files on windoze and how can I get around the files not found?
Thanks!

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use File::Find;
use File::stat;
use Time::localtime;
my $NodeName = Win32::NodeName();
my $path = ("C:\\TEMP\\");
my $LogDir = ("C:\\LOGS\\");     # log folder

#date and time
&TimeStamp;
sub TimeStamp {

    my $tm = localtime;
    my $Date = sprintf ("%02d_%02d_%04d", $tm->mon+1, $tm->mday, $tm->
+year+1900);
    
    my $Log = $Date."_".$NodeName.".txt";
    open(LOG,">>$LogDir\\$Log") || die "TCleaner.pl can't open $Log fo
+r writing: $!";
    find (\&unwanted, $path);
}

sub unwanted {
    # Change the age to desired days past to delete
    my $age = 1;
    my $atime = int(-A _);
    my $mod_time = int(-M _);
         
    if (!(/^\./) && $mod_time > $age && $atime > $age) {
        print LOG "going to delete these!  $_ modified days old -->$mo
+d_time\n";
        #system ("del $_ /Q");
        #unlink($_);
    }else{
        print LOG "KEEPING $_  access days old ---> $atime\n";
    }
} # END

[xorl]

This is how I do it.

use File::Find;

find(\&wanted, $dir);

sub wanted {
    unlink $_ if -M $_ > $days;
}

$dir is the directory you want to delete files from
$days is how old the files are. i.e. if you wanted to delete all files older than two weeks set days to 14.

[kutsu]

Do the files exist and is your test server running windows? On command line type locate filename for linux or dir /s /p filename on windows (may have to do a cd \ before hand).

[softworkz]

I tried dir /s /p within the directory (not found) I'm beginning to suspect SPACES in file names..

[kutsu]

If you were in the TEMP directory and did a dir /s /p and found nothing...TEMP is empty, it has nothing to do with spaces in the filename. I would guess this works on your local machine because you don't clean out the TEMP directory, on a server (even a test server) this proably isn't the case and your files are getting deleted, which is one of the many reasons you shouldn't put non-temporary files in a temp directory. However, if you don't even understand the basic function dir (like how to find files with spaces in their names), I suggest you take some time and learn about your OS.