Contributed by Anonymous Monk
on May 08, 2000 at 20:47 UTC
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Answer: How do I delete files based on their timestamp? contributed by reptile Or use perlfunc:stat from within perl. It'll give you just about everything you wanted to know about a file and more. The times returned are in seconds-since-epoch format just like time() so a little arithmetic and a comparison is all you need.
# delete $file if it's not been modified for 3 hours
if ( (stat $file)[9] < time() - (3600 * 3) ) {
unlink $file;
}
| Answer: How do I delete files based on their timestamp? contributed by btrott Are you on a *nix system? Using find is probably
the easiest way:
find /foo/bar -mtime +7 -exec rm -rf {} \;
This will find all files under /foo/bar that
were modified more than 7 days ago and remove
them.
If you're *nix-impaired :) (and considering that this
is a Perl site), use File::Find:
use File::Find;
find(\&wanted, '/foo/bar');
sub wanted {
unlink $_ if -M $_ > 7;
}
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