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Re: Re: How do you write a perl script to calculate the age of a fileby VSarkiss (Monsignor) |
| on Jun 19, 2001 at 07:32 UTC ( [id://89539]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
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Ah, when will the golf urge pass? You could do:
unlink $filename if -M $filename > 2;
saving yourself two parentheses and two squiggly braces. ;-)
It even reads exactly as the questioner proposed: "delete the file if it is more than two days old".
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