Well, in Perl, you can do "-M $file".

See "perldoc -f -X"

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From: "Donna Garverick" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2003 1:01 PM
Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] determining a file's age


> Lars Appel wrote:
>
> > Sounds like a job for /bin/find "/some/dir -mtime +30" with
> > or without additional -exec options. Or maybe with -atime, if
> > you're after the access date.
>
> i was wondering about that (and rather hoping that someone would offer
> a posix solution) -- but i don't think find will answer the question.
> as we've seen, it's relatively easy to pick out a file set based on
> the age of the file.  but what i'm after is the reverse -- determine
> the age based on the file.              - d
>
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