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||Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2005 5:19 PM
||To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
||Cc: beginners@perl.org
||Subject: Re: Compare file modification time
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||[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
|| How do I best compare mtime of several files. I have a script for making
|| daily backups into a given directory
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Babale Fongo wrote:
It was just an attempt to see how someone else may tackle this issue. I
thought of sorting, but I wasn't sure it will do exactly what I expect.
Here is what I've have so far:
my $dir = /mydir;
opendir(DH, $dir) || die Failed to open $dir: $!\n;
my
Babale Fongo wrote:
It was just an attempt to see how someone else may tackle this issue. I
thought of sorting, but I wasn't sure it will do exactly what I expect.
Here is what I've have so far:
my $dir = /mydir;
opendir(DH, $dir) || die Failed to open $dir: $!\n;
my $counter = 0;
while
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
#use diagnostics;
my $dir = testdir;
opendir (DH, $dir) || die Could not open $dir: $!\n;
my @files; my $keep = 7;
while (defined(my $file = readdir(DH))){
next if $file =~ /^\.+$/;
push (@files, $file);
}
# Skip the rest if number of
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How do I best compare mtime of several files. I have a script for making
daily backups into a given directory. Now I want to modify it to
delete old backups if the total exceed cetain number.
The idea was to compare the mtime of all file to figure out old files to
