On 11-03-02 11:34 AM, newbie01 perl wrote:
My main hurdle is the file timestamp and date arithmetic part. Frm
Google'ing, am leaning towards using stat which am hoping will work on both
Unix and Windows.
Some guidance will be much appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Use the stat function to get the mtime of the files. The one with the
biggest is the most recent.
Compare it to now and if now > mtime + 2 * 24 * 60 * 60 then output your
message.
Use strftime() from POSIX to change the epoch seconds to human readable
form.
See:
perldoc -f stat
perldoc -f time
perldoc -f localtime
pelrdoc POSIX and search for /strftime/.
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