> -----Original Message-----
> From: anu p [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 11:51 AM
> To: beginners@perl.org
> Subject: Modifiaction time of file
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a requirement where I need to look at the age
> of file, if it's older than 2 days, I should remove
> it.
> I am trying to use the '-M ' filehandle in my script,
> it does not work.
>
> I get the following error
> Use of uninitialized value in numeric gt (>) at
> ./temp_age.pl line 12.
>
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl
>
> use strict;
> use warnings;
>
> my $fail_dir =
> "/home/anupamaperi/failed_tests/regress_26";
> my ($file, $age);
>
> opendir (DIR, $fail_dir) || die "cannot open, no
> $fail_dir dir $!";
> while ($file = readdir (DIR)) {
> if (-M $file > 2) {
> print("$file\n");
> unlink($file);
> }
> }
readdir() returns directory entries in a list context if any entries
exist and undef if there is nothing. You should read the entries in an
array and iterate over that:
my @files2check = readdir( DIR );
foreach my $file ( @files2check ) {
if ( -M $file > 2 ) {
...
}
}
ry
>
> Any ideas where am I going wrong?
>
> Thanks,
> Anu.
>
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