Moving a file after it is 10 minutes old?

[ProbablyDown]

Hi all,

I have a Perl script on Linux that is called by cron to move all files from one directory to another. What happens every now an again is that my script will move a file from the source directory before the the file is complete causing all kinds of trouble...

I want to move the file ONLY when the file is older than 10 minutes.

Can anyone help?

Thanks,
-pd

 

[MikeLacey]

Hi there,

You need to look at the stat() function. Stat() will give you the age of the file, well -- the number of seconds since inode modification which should do what you need. Mike

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[ProbablyDown]

Thanks Mike!

That was actually what I ended up doing... I decided to try using the mtime though, which will track when the file was actually created in my case.

Thanks again!
-pd