new Beginner

Hi All use strict; use warnings; my $name ="Ashraf"; my $need ="Learn perl"; $need.="and to help"; if(ican){i well do;} ___END___ =Thanks Ashraf -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: really new beginner

Hi James, I'm a great believer in learning by doing, so here's a few pointers for you to start with. have a look at opendir, closedir and readdir for the directory access have a look at time and stat to get/compare timestamps all are documented in the 'man perlfunc' man page Gary On Tuesday

really new beginner

I am trying to create a script which will delete certain files which have names which are partially known and are older than 2 days old. Is there anything that can be done easily and quickly. The files I'm trying to delete are on an NT server. I know the first part of the filename and the exten