Bob Showalter wrote: > > Well, in this case John's script is fine, because he's interested in only > the relative values of -M when comparing one file to another. The base value > of ^$T is irrelevant to finding the five newest files. ^^^ $^T
> -M burns you in a long-running program when you want to find "files older > than x days" where "x days from *right now*" is implied. This can be > overcome by locally setting ^$T=time() before evaluating -M. ^^^ $^T John -- use Perl; program fulfillment -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]